elementary homeschool

How to Choose Books for Your Homeschool
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How to Choose Books for Your Homeschool

Books are an incredibly important part of our homeschool – in fact, they are central to just about every part of our homeschool! But how do you choose books for your homeschool? What should you look for and…

Five Ways to Improve Reading comprehension
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Five Ways to Improve Reading comprehension

Once your kids learn how to read, you want to make sure that they aren’t just reading the words, but that they actually understand what’s happening in the story. This is called reading comprehension. If your kids can…

Weather Unit Study
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Weather Unit Study

My favorite way to learn about a topic with my kiddos is to do a unit study. With a wide age range (I have five kids, ages 13 down to 4), I find that literature-based unit studies work…

Winter Books for Kids
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Winter Books for Kids

One of my favorite things about the changing of seasons is the books! I store seasonal books separately from the rest of our books, so it’s always so fun to pull out the new (old) books as the…