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
This post is about what some Christian families do with celebrations relating to October 31st. It provides ideas with a few links. Reformation Day celebrates the day that Martin Luther nailed his 95 theses to a church door in his community, proclaiming the truths that he had discovered by reading the Bible. This historical and world-changing event is sometimes presented… Read More
This coming weekend is Thanksgiving (in Canada)! 🙂 As you encourage your family to give thanks for the blessings of the year, here are 8 types of things you might like to do! This is a post specifically for those of us moms who aren’t always able to accomplish elaborate “ahead-of-time” plans or for those who like to keep things… Read More
This post is just put here to give more background and benefits of spreading out a homeschool schedule to purposely show that one is adding margin and time into the plan for the day. (This topic was mentioned briefly on the “Friday and Summary” blog and in context, it fits in with that series of posts.) A schedule is just… Read More
Fridays are frequently our family’s last schoolday of the week. I know that many families just have a 4-day week and take Fridays “off” and that’s fine. But I still like to put things on my Friday homeschool schedule and this post is about giving you examples of what we personally might do and to provide you some ideas for… Read More
Thursday… being towards the end of a week, it seems like a day to dig thoughtfully deeper and/or emphasize the applications of what has been learned in previous days, weeks, and months. I’ll also spend some time explaining our different approach to “reading comprehension and literature studies” – something that tends to take up a lot of time in most… Read More
Years ago, we realized something – that writing assignments tend to take a fair amount of time to complete well and that the finished product is easier and better if a longer chunk of time is allowed for it – time to ponder, to doodle, to research, to outline, to illustrate, to write, edit, and make a good copy. It… Read More
My personal favourite start date isn’t actually until the end of October, after the canning and harvesting are done for the season and the weather is getting quite crispy to spend long hours outdoors in my part of Canada. However, some years, like this year, we do begin (at least some of) our school year earlier. And do I always… Read More
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