Create 6 different summertime sensory activities for those days when your family just needs some time out of the pool and away from the screens.
Make this Sandy Beach Cloud Dough for your toddlers & preschoolers today. This sandy cloud dough mixes up in less than 5 minutes and is perfect for shaping into castles for hours of sensory play that also promotes language development!
Learn how to find homeschooling materials that are free and inexpensive. Get detailed ways to find all that you need for your homeschool when you have a tiny budget and feel overwhelmed by all of the possibilities.
Get step by step instructions for choosing free and inexpensive homeschool materials. Learn how to find all that you need for your homeschool when you have a tiny budget and feel overwhelmed by all of the planning and choices.
Mix up some fireworks oobleck goop and learn about non-Newtonian fluids, fireworks, and our nation’s birthday in this no stress, super easy one day mini unit study for preschoolers up to fifth grade.
Learn how EASY it is to make fake snow as well as four different snow sensory bins that will help your kids get their wiggles out on snow days! #winter #snowman #sensory #sensorybin #snow #fakesnow
Language Intensive Snowmen at Night Unit Study for PreK-2nd grade homeschool families: printables, hands-on activities, sensory, and more!
Make this taste safe gluten-free hot chocolate cloud dough for your toddlers & preschoolers today. This gluten-free hot chocolate cloud dough mixes up in less than 5 minutes and provides your kids with hours of sensory fun!
Think outside the box (and beyond helping at the food bank) and create your own community service activity. With children, sometimes simple acts of serving others have the most impact.
Make this taste safe gluten-free hot chocolate cloud dough for your toddlers & preschoolers today. This gluten-free hot chocolate cloud dough mixes up in less than 5 minutes and provides your kids with hours of sensory fun!
Finding a homeschool tribe isn’t as easy for some teens as it is for others. Here are 5 social tips for teens who struggle with new situations and people.
Some communities are blessed with vibrant homeschooling co-ops with hundreds of families with every type of academic, athletic and social activity you can imagine. But many of us don’t have access to such incredible resources. Learn how to start a local teen homeschool group and why it’s so important for your teens be surrounded by other teens with similar values.
When my kids were little, people always asked me, “But what about high school? You’ll send them to school, then, right?” My oldest two have graduated high school, and my third kiddo is about to begin high school. So, I have been pondering what I wish I’d known nine years ago and what I might do differently this time. Here’s my list of what I’ve learned about homeschooling high school so far:
Learn what organizational strategies you can use in your homeschool to help your distractable child with ADHD better focus and learn while homeschooling.
How to create an Out of the Box Individualized Homeschool Curriculum Plan that’s best for your family plus how to build your own homeschool planner
There are some truths about homeschooling that I wish I had known when I began this journey that I hope can be of encouragement to families just beginning their homeschool experience.
Let’s discuss the differences between phonics, phonology, phonemic awareness and emergent literacy, and then see how to help your child in these areas.
Find out how to decide if your child needs to have their speech evaluated by a speech and language pathologist (SLP) and what to do.
Worried about your child’s language development? Does your 24 month old only have a few words? Find out if you should seek professional advice Before I became a homeschooling mom, I was a speech-language pathologist, aka speech therapist. As an undergraduate in the Communication Disorders program, I was required to take a language development class…
Here’s how you can color rice in four simple steps to rock your kid’s sensory bin. My kids will play for hours with their rice bins. It’s educational and they think it’s fun!
Make an educational & engaging sensory bin for your kids to explore and give yourself a well-deserved break while they play independently.
Are Sensory Bins Really Worth the Mess? Here are 10 reasons why you should have a sensory bin in your homeschool
Is your high schooler looking for volunteer opportunities beyond working at the local food bank? Here are five less conventional ways for homeschoolers to get the leadership experiences that scholarship sponsors, colleges and employers are looking for in applicants.