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5 Ways to Encourage a Struggling Reader

Filed under Homeschooling by Kimberly on April 29, 2009 at 11:25 pm {no comments}

Books in Winter Jessie Willcox-Smith If you have more than one child, then you probably have notice by now that no two children from the same gene pool are cookie cutter duplicates of each other. Sure, there may be similarities, but it just blows me away sometimes when I think of how differently each of [...]

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Unapologetic

Filed under Christian Living, Homeschooling by Kimberly on April 8, 2009 at 9:06 pm {no comments}

Iron sharpens iron, the Bible tells us, just like friends help to influence one another, for better or for worse (Prov 27:17). I’ve been so blessed with lots of great friends over the years who have influenced me, and to whom I am thankful. When one of them radically changes course, it makes me stop [...]

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Learning & Teaching Languages

Filed under Foreign Language, Homeschooling by Kimberly on January 17, 2009 at 11:18 pm {no comments}

Yesterday’s blog talked about my use of a giant whiteboard for reviewing and learning facts related to current school lessons, and I pointed out that right now most of the board deals with the four different foreign languages my five children are learning (not 4 each, but each learning a different language, and 2 learning [...]

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Why Algebra?

Filed under Homeschooling, Math by Kimberly on September 17, 2008 at 9:46 pm {no comments}

There comes a time in every homeschooling mother’s life when they look toward their child, and see a young lady or man staring back at them (sometimes they have to look up, because the child somehow became taller than them in the process of growing up), and asking the question that has plagued young people [...]

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