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Buying Vs Renting From The Library
One of the biggest questions as a homeschooler, to buy or not to buy? I find myself standing in the middle of the bookstore asking myself this exact question more than I would like to admit. I used to have a serious problem with buying books, I would buy them from the bookstore, second-hand…
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Story Of The World – Vol. 1 Ancient Times
I always knew that I wanted my kids to learn about history, my only issue was I didn’t want to teach it in the dry way I learnt it in school. My goal was to have our history lessons to be a journey through time where we got to experience the culture, food, family…
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Awesome Early Readers
When our children are first learning to read we are always looking for early readers to catch their interest and keep them hungry for reading. We tend to lean towards books that are full of humour for the kids because they will want to keep reading. I also enjoy books that teach life lessons…
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Living Without Electronics, Even Just For A Day!
In this day and age, I admit that it’s sometimes hard to say no to electronics, they are in most of our daily routines. This weekend my family got to experience a different sort of life. A life where tv, phones, and computers weren’t taking up all of our time. Even though I know…
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Finding Balance In Our Homeschool
In the beginning, I found that finding any sort of balance in parenthood let alone our homeschool seemed like the most ridiculous thing in the world. After many breakdowns though, I realized that we all needed time to be our own people, to do things each of us enjoyed, and to continue growing as…
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My Homeschool Planner
We are going into our third year of homeschooling and I feel like I still don’t know what planner method works best for our family. I often wonder if I will ever find something that is perfect or if we will continue to just use whatever is working and tweak things as they stop…