Who doesn’t remember the ‘olden’ days when all we had available to keep us busy on road trips were books to read, cassettes to listen to, and car games to play like the license plate game and madlibs. Madlibs are still fun to play! And they teach about basic parts of speech as well. For […]
Creative Writing Day 7: Ideas From Around the Web
Isn’t the internet a wonderful tool? With just a few clicks you can usually find an answer to a question or an idea to help you. Here are some creative writing links from around the web. Small World at Home has a set of creative writing lessons for all ages. She calls the series WordSmithery. […]
Creative Writing Day 6: Letter Writing & Fun Mail
Don’t you just love to get mail? I do! What a simple pleasure it is when checking my mail to find at the bottom of a stack of bills and magazines a card or letter from a friend. E-mail has caused a great decline in the handwritten note. I’m not saying I don’t enjoy reading […]
Creative Writing Day 5: Rainbow Writing
The idea behind creative writing is to get one to use words and express ideas in a more colorful, creative way. There should be no stress about grammar or spelling. That can come later. If those are expected to early all the joy of writing is snuffed out. Today’s project is to help children (and […]
Creative Writing Day 4: Books About Family
This past summer as we cleaned out our school closet I came upon some treasures. Books written by my two oldest! Several years ago when we were struggling with language arts I stepped away from our regular curriculum for a while and encouraged my daughters to write books instead. It was a memorable experience. My […]
Creative Writing Day 3: Mimic a Favorite Children’s Book
Are there certain books your children love to read or have read to them over and over and over again? Do you know why? Usually it is because the text of the book is either repetative, rhymes, or has a singsong quality to it. You can use this to your advantage in teaching creative writing […]
Creative Writing Day 2: A Little Alliteration
Alliteration is a fun tool to use to get your children to write. In a nut shell alliteration can be used two ways: Using the same letter to begin as many words in a sentence as possible. Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers. Using the same tonal sound repeatedly in a sentence, even […]
Creative Writing Day 1: Paint Chip Writing
(image source) The Challenge: Pick up a paint strip sample with several shades of color on a strip. Write a story or poem that incorporates every paint color name on your paint chip sample. Be creative! If you don’t make it to the store to pick up paint samples never fear! Use the Color Palette […]
Great American Documents
****Giveaway in now closed. Thanks for the HUGE response! The winner was #86 Lorri Love**** As is pretty typical of many homeschoolers, we love history, particularly American history. It is rich in stories of triumph and failures, freedom and slavery, great men and women all shaping our country, and I believe, being led by God […]
Learning About the Reformation
This is a post I wrote for Latter-day Homeschooling. I thought I’d share it here too as my homeschooling post for the week. Quick, what is October 31st known for? Halloween is not an acceptable answer! Do you know? Here are a few clues. It happened in 1517. Elder Ballard said, “the Spirit of Christ […]
National Book Lover’s Day!!
In honor of National Book Lover’s Day today, here’s a recap of my favorite children’s book, Just David by Eleanor H. Porter. It is a delightful, innocent type of book written by the same author of Pollyanna. David, a ten-year-old orphan boy, is simply and purely good. His sweet innocence but wise observations of life […]
Summer Reading Activities
It is not hard to get my children to read during the summer for several reasons. It gets too hot to do anything outside. The bookmobile comes to our front door every other Monday. The bookmobile’s summer reading program is terrific. The kids are required to read a certain amount of minutes, depending on grade […]
Quick Math Games for Summer {or anytime}
One thing I have learned about math with my children, if we continue to review the basics during breaks or vacation from school math goes a lot easier when we start up again. Here are some of the quick games and activities we do to keep their skills sharp. Math War (a favorite): Use any […]
Easy Writing Activities for Summer
School is out for most people. We are taking a little break too. Not a big one as we want to keep to our year round schedule (so we’ll be off the first month after the baby is born). Whenever we take a break, we never really take a full break. There are still some […]
Figures of Speech
Simple and short homeschooling post today (and very, very, late). We have been painting the dining room! Today’s post comes courtesy of my 8th grade English teacher. She wrote this simple poem to help her students remember basic figures of speech and to help keep them straight. A simile is like a song It’s as […]
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