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CollegeCovered.com, powered by Discover Student Loans, provides students and parents with great tips and tools and getting into, paying for and adjusting to college. It seems like it was just the other day that my living room floor was filled with wooden train tracks and little boys having adventures. But now instead of talking about the misadventures of cheeky little… Read More
This post with strategies for parents to help struggling readers is one that I originally wrote in 2012, although these are still solid strategies today. In this post, I shared about the strategies we used to help our 2nd grade struggling reader to grow into a voracious reader by the time he was in 6th grade. At the end of the post,… Read More
How to Add Hands-On Activities and Experiences to Your Homeschool is from contributing writer Kris Bales of Weird, Unsocialized Homeschoolers. The beginning of the school year is a lot like New Year’s Day. It feels like a clean slate, full of endless possibilities. All the plans are swirling in your head and you’re excited because this is finally going to… Read More
Making Books in Your Homeschool is a post by Sarah Small from SmallWorld at Home. Possibly, I am slightly obsessed with books. Not only do we have a dozen bookcases or more that house hardbacks and paperbacks of all shapes and sizes, butI have boxes of books that the kids have made during our dozen years of homeschooling. These books… Read More
It’s back to school time, which doesn’t mean just new books, pencils, and folders. It also means that kids returning to school are going to be encountering all kinds of new germs and illnesses. Somehow that’s just not as exciting as a new bright pink calculator, is it? Although you can’t help them avoid every illness, there are definitely things… Read More
When my kids get home from school every day, they are ready to grab something to eat to get them through until dinner time. They all have fairly early lunch times at school, so it makes after school snacks important around our house. Even when we were homeschooling, there was just something about that traditional after school time that made… Read More
