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Friday, January 21, 2022
40 Kansas City Area Homeschool Co-ops, Drop-offs, Sports, Enrichment Opportunities *updated regularly*
New to the area? Lived here your whole life?
Monday, January 3, 2022
All About Pokemon Hands-On Unit Study Course on Teachable for Grades 3-8
The All About Pokémon Unit Study includes 4 main areas:
1- Learn & Explore: in this section, your child will read articles and watch videos on anime, the history of Pokémon, the Japanese language, Japan and Japanese culture. Through each lesson in Learn & Explore, your child will complete various assignments and earn Poké Points along the way!
Sunday, January 2, 2022
Aspirational and Sentimental Homeschool Clutter
I may not have a lot of books compared to some homeschoolers, but it feels like a lot when I'm sorting through things and feeling overwhelmed. When I realized books had overflowed off of two bookshelves into my storage room and were piled high in stacks on a filing cabinet, I knew I had to do something about that. Thankfully, it was Christmas break so I could finally tackle the project.
Let's take a specific book I've been saving as an example and make it our scapegoat. The book in question is What Your Kindergartner Needs to Know (Revised and updated): Preparing Your Child for a Lifetime of Learning (The Core Knowledge Series) and my youngest child is 11 years old and in 5th grade. This means this dialogue also applies to several more books I own in the series.
My dialogue goes something like this:
Saturday, January 1, 2022
How to Conquer Homeschool Clutter
If you came here from the post Aspirational and Sentimental Homeschool Clutter, welcome! if not, please go check it out!
Homeschool clutter can cause you to waste a lot of time searching for things you may or may not own, as well as causing you to spend money buying things you already have! Below are some ways I found to help tame the different kinds of homeschool clutter and paper monsters and find some peace, organization and money saved in my life.
Friday, June 11, 2021
Table of Contents: What Your First Grader Needs to Know
Never fear! I will be typing this up soon so you can grab it and print it out from Google Docs, just like I did with the Home Learning Year by Year benchmarks!
Thursday, April 1, 2021
Junior Great Books Table of Contents and Overlap in Stories
We discovered Junior Great Books when my daughter Callie took a homeschool co-op course around 5th grade. Now I'm in love with them and try to buy up all of them. Some of them we consume and are not in love with, so we pass them on. Some we save and I hope to teach my own Junior Great Books class at the co-op someday :-) Here you can find the Table of Contents for the books we have read:
Series 2, First Semester (1992) (selling in upcoming homeschool used book sale)
The Happy Lion by Louise Fatio
The Tale of Squirrel Nutkin by Beatrix Potter
How the Camel Got His Hump by Rudyard Kipling
Kanga and Baby Roo Come to the Forest, and Piglet Has a Bath by A.A. Milne
Arap Sang and the Cranes (African folktale as told by Humphrey Harman)
Blue Moose by Daniel Manus Pinkwater
Tuesday, March 9, 2021
Our Reading Box
What Our Box Contains
Bob Books
Explode the Code workbooks
Hooked on Phonics
Reading Pathways
Sing Spell Write
Sounds & Symbols Early Phonics Storybook from Calvert School (when we did virtual school)
Books to read aloud together
Alphabet Books
A Was Once an Apple Pie by Edward Lear
Alphabears: An ABC Book by Kathleen Hague
Chicka Chicka Boom Boom by Bill Martin and John Archambault
I Spy: An Alphabet in Art by Lucy Micklethwait
On Market Street by Arnold Lobel
Other Resources:
Teach Your Child to Read in 100 Easy Lessons (my family did not like this one, but many seem to enjoy it)
Highlights Magazine
Also Check Out:
The New Read-Aloud Handbook by Jim Trelease
Read-Aloud Revival by Sarah Mackenzie
Honey for a Child's Heart by Gladys Hunt