Category: Teaching Strategies
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Create Your Own DIY Learning Games
Educational games are an amazing way to encourage your child to learn and explore. They combine fun engagement activities with skill development. Unlike traditional learning methods that rely heavily on memorization, listening, and repetitive writing, games actively involve children in the learning process. Playing a game helps your child maintain…
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Reading for 1st Graders – Top Rated Books and Tips
Why is Reading with Your Child Important Reading and being read-to are both very important activities for first graders. Being read-to exposes your child to new words which helps them build essential vocabulary and comprehension skills that they will need and use as they grow. It also allows your child…
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How to Incorporate P.E. at Home
Physical Education P.E., or physical education, is an important part of learning for all children. Similar to core subjects like math and science, P.E. teaches important concepts and helps to build lifelong healthy habits. Throughout the elementary school years, PE teaches development in motor skills, how physical fitness relates to…
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Homeschooling Outside of the Home
Brick-and-mortar schools rely heavily on routine. Children come in at the same time every day, sit at the same desk, and cover the same subjects day in and day out. They are made to learn about the world and how it works from the confines of their classroom walls. One…
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How to Get Your Kids Reading
Today, children are mostly interested in electronics, receiving instant gratification from their screens. Encouraging children to read requires more than just offering books, it takes creativity, patience, and consistency. There are several strategies that parents and caregivers can use to inspire children to embrace reading. However, finding the right ones…
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Feel Free to Roam
One of the best aspects of homeschooling is that you can do it from anywhere. You can do school in a room set up to replicate a brick-and-mortar learning environment, you can allow your children to complete their schoolwork wherever they choose, you can take class outside for a more…
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Computer Science for Elementary Students
In today’s world, technology plays a large role in just about every aspect of life. From careers and education to communication and entertainment, technology is the basis of almost everything. That is why it is so important to teach elementary students basic computer science skills. This includes how to correctly…
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Libraries are Your Friend!
Throughout my homeschooling journey, I have found little bits and pieces that have really helped me out. Libraries are definitely one of the best resources I have found. Not only do they provide physical resources for you to use such lexile-level books for your children to read and books for…
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What About Homeschool Groups?
I know being a homeschooling parent can be hard at times. Sometimes you may feel overwhelmed, or you may wish that you had another homeschooling parent to bounce ideas around with. You may be concerned about your child’s socialization and their ability to work with others. If you are anything…
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My Top 5: Alternatives to Traditional Note Taking
Note-taking is an essential part of the learning process. However, for many students it is not the optimal way to learn. Reviewing notes does not help everyone to actually review information or to retain that information. And let’s face it, it is possibly the most boring aspect of learning as…