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
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
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
Note: The below post is now past news. Thank you to those of you who came! We are packing up the stock for moving but can open the boxes for any online orders that come through. We remain open for online orders. ———————————————————————————- We’re holding a MOVING SALE Saturday, June 15th and the next Saturday, June 22nd, 9:00 a.m. to… Read More
Many of our readers are aware of reasons behind our decision to move * and about the new direction this necessity has brought to our family. As we go through this process, I hope to update our blog with a summary of this journey. We are walking by faith, trusting in our God’s all-sufficient power to bring… Read More
Today I’d like to share one more way to help your homeschooling kids, grades 3-8, to learn MATH….through unit chunks at approximately the same “chunk” at a time but in multi-levels! Be sure to download the 2-page plan at the bottom of this post if you are interested in this approach to multi-grade math! 🙂 You can also check out… Read More
When you teach your preschoolers the Bible, how do you plan which Bible story or topic to teach? At this level, I have seen a variety of materials but I have never seen anything like THIS outline before. To me, it solves a couple of minor predicaments that I’ve considered in the past: I like to teach somewhat chronologically BUT… Read More
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