Family-Style Homeschooling
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Learn about rocks, from formation to identification, and get a printable rock cycle worksheet.
Disciplining teenagers is no cake walk. How do you respond when your teen sasses back, lies, breaks curfew, fails his math class, torments her younger siblings, or gets into a fight? If you respond to these relatively minor behavioral problems correctly, then it’s much less likely that the bigger problems like drugs, teenage sex, violence,
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Learn to write sentences you can really sink your teeth into with this simple lesson about how adding details can make your descriptive writing more interesting.
Create your own Parts of Speech Flip Book to help you learn the parts of speech and the jobs they do in sentences. Your flip book can also become an excellent word bank to help you as you write.
Make a medieval book by stitching the pages together and sewing on a cover. Use the book to collect things you learn about the middle ages.
Homeschooling and housekeeping . . . a seemingly never-ending battle. I’m quite picky about my house staying clean, but with each additional kid that comes along the level of cleanliness seems to drift further and further from my ideal. I hate that crazy feeling when I start the day with a clean house, but all
Story maps are a great way for kids to begin to understand the basic elements of narrative texts. They can begin by reading stories and learning to identify each element, and then eventually they will also be able to begin writing their own stories using what they’ve learned. This printable story map can be used
Learn about the equator, prime meridian, and lines of latitude and longitude in this colorful map grid exploration.
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Use the printable and a copy of the U.S. Constitution to learn what the roles of each of the three branches entails. You’ll use colored pencils to color code as you go along.
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Float an egg in salt water and plain water to do some density tests. Then calculate density with your older students.
Use a quick draw as a little warm-up at the beginning of any art lesson and watch your kids’ artistic confidence and creativity blossom.