Yes, you can work and home school. As with most things, where there's a will, there's a way. If it's important to you, you find a way. Homeschooling was something I became passionate about once I understood that it is what is best for my kids and my family. Circumstances led me to have to work at least part time, so I did childcare … [Read more...]
Learn About Community Helpers
Learn about community helpers. It's so fun for kids to learn about people in our communities that are public servants and community helpers with these fun books! You can find plenty more in the "Meet My Neighbor" series, "Neighborhood Helpers", or the "Community Helper" series if you really like a certain book, just look up another type of helper … [Read more...]
Best Road Trip Books for Kids
If you've ever traveled with kids, you know you need something to entertain them such as the best road trip books you can find. I like to torture my kids with good old fashioned road trips like I had when I was little, as in, no screen time. Sure, my siblings and I fought, wined, and asked, "are we there yet?" till my parents were ready to throw us … [Read more...]
Relaxed Homeschool Schedule
This past school year the kids were in a charter school that required we follow at least some curriculum, so we gave it a try. We are relaxed, eclectic, unschool type homeschoolers. I don't like to be labeled, but we use bits and pieces of curriculum as needed while most of our learning is through games, field trips, discussion, and everyday life. … [Read more...]
Kids Books About Elephants
Wonderful books for kids about elephants. Whether learning about African elephants, Indian elephants, putting together a unit study, or just love learning about safari animals, these are great books to begin your adventure with elephants. Elephants are so majestic, social, gentle, and wise, we can learn so much by studying them. Here is a … [Read more...]
Love to Learn Blog Hop 24
Welcome to the Love to Learn Blog Hop A collection of educational activities to instill a life long love of learning in our children. Enjoy learning through play, nature, crafts, and many other educational activities. This is a PIN-IT PARTY Your hosts will pin our favorite posts to our Pinterest boards! I encourage you to do the same! and … [Read more...]
Ten Best Board Books for Toddlers
It's never too early to start reading to kids. Offer plenty of bright and bold story books to your toddlers to begin their curiosity about books and love of reading. Baby's love to see smiling baby faces or the contrast of black and white and toddlers love to touch and feel. Board books are easy for little ones to hold and sturdy enough not to tear … [Read more...]
Relaxed Homeschool Curriculum for Multiple Children
This past school year was the first year we began seriously using curriculum. Oh, we've dabbled here and there, using a few pages from this math curriculum and a chapter from that reading curriculum. We are relaxed homeschoolers or unschoolers, so, we mostly learn through hands on and experience, playing games, researching interests and learning as … [Read more...]
Top Wordless Picture Books
We love picture books and of course the more reading practice the better, right? But have you considered the value in wordless picture books? Wordless picture books can stretch the imagination and provide a great opportunity for story creating and story telling. Wordless picture books are not just for toddlers, I'm not talking about board books … [Read more...]
Kids Books About Baseball
Baseball is America's favorite past time, right? I admit, I've never been a big fan, myself, but it seems every kids goes through a Baseball loving phase. My son was in T-Ball when he was 4 and loved every second of it! My favorite part was when both teams crowded together to watch as earth worm wriggle over the dirt. We had pretty awesome coaches … [Read more...]
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