It’s back-to-school season soon! And that means it’s time for us moms to gather our supplies together and get organized! 🙂 Download your free 9-page printable pdf, print it out and follow along with these photos below to grab lots of ideas for getting organized with “school supplies” in YOUR home! Growing up in a home of schoolteachers, across the… Read More
Beginning Your Homeschooling Journey
You might be just starting to homeschool with your young child(ren) and are excited about the possibilities ahead! You might be just starting to homeschool with someone who has already attended school. There are some many reasons for “why” you may have decided to homeschool but you’re now at the stage of planning, “How do I begin?” Our family began… Read More
Free Homeschool Planning Guides
FREEBIES! Hooray!!! ♥ Click to download any of these helpful planning guides. They are in pdf format for your convenience. This looonnnggg planner (tape it together to see the “big picture”) is our newest planner to be available to you. This one shows the best of how Peppermint Stick Learning Company is/will be arranging our curriculum AND it is the… Read More
EMF MCS Related Posts – Start Here
My blog posts about environmental sensitivities are often arranged topically rather than chronologically. For folks who are just beginning to learn about what EMF sensitivities are, this can be harder to follow because so much is new and complex due to the nature of trying to describe it sufficiently and answer questions of people who ask me about something related… Read More
What God Has Provided
Today I’m writing about the journey to our new home, which has been a huge move for us. For more background to one of the main reasons why we moved, please read about my/our environmental sensitivities in this blog section. (No amount of gadgets, strategies, or general good supplements are sufficient for the level of management needed long-term for this… Read More
Let Me Read – Non-Sequential Learning for Literacy
Today’s blog is still about literacy, or in other words, teaching the skills of how to read! Perhaps you’re wondering about how to teach reading to your kindergarten or grade 1 child or an older one who still struggles. Maybe you want to know about how to know when to teach the skills of “how to read” with one of… Read More
Let Me Read Step 3 is Here!
Full-year Canadian literacy curriculum for homeschooling in grade 1 (or similar levels) is now complete! Strengthen a young child’s reading skills and expand these to introduce spelling and some reading comprehension skills too! It was a busy week again personally but here we are and I’ll quickly try to get this announcement on the blog. (I hear thunder in the… Read More
How to Homeschool in Canada AND Get High School Credits
A common-enough question here is Canada is “How can we homeschool during the high school years AND still get official credits towards the [provincial] diploma?” I will try to briefly summarize my answer in this blog and work on updating my longer high school article that I had on our old website years ago later. My answer is based on… Read More
NEW Literacy Curriculum Released! Let Me Read: Step 2
Announcing our newest e-book – this time for literacy – learning to read well! This designed-for-home-education curriculum is especially for young children (e.g. kindergarten, grade 1) or older students who need to build confidence and fluency in learning the variety of reading skills. Rather than posting much detail in a blog format, here is a free downloadable sample set of… Read More
Links for Science
Help for Teaching Science The following are the links to the main places on our website where you can find tips to teach/guide/motivate the learning of SCIENCE TOPICS AND SKILLS, especially in a home education (homeschool) environment. (This post will be updated if additional places on our website have science as its focus.) How to Make Science Units with PSLC… Read More
Links for Canadian Geography
Help for Teaching Geography Skills (with Canadian-focused Content) The following are the links to the main places on our website where you can find tips to teach/guide/motivate learning about CANADIAN GEOGRAPHY, especially in a home education (homeschool) environment. Monday (from 2019) – this blog post shares a list of resources our family uses to learn map skills and Canadian Geography… Read More
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