Category: 5th Grade
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Homeschool Music Curriculum
This post is about your homeschool music curriculum. In other words, we will discuss the value of making music everyday in your homeschool life and provide some samples we use in our lessons below to inspire your work at home. What is it about music? This evening after dinner, my family gathered around our toddler.…
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Which Homeschool Curriculum Do I Choose?
Which homeschool curriculum do I choose? I see this question come up constantly in social media groups. Most homeschooling parents aren’t trained teachers, and they are looking expert guidance. In my experience, parents fall into one of three categories with education: no experience, some experience, and lots of experience. To each group I will make…
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Homeschooling Supplies to Get Your Started
People often ask me about how to setup their homeschooling environment, particularly what homeschooling supplies to have on hand. In this post, we’re going to shed light on that to help people new to this wonderful craft. Drawing and Writing Supplies For the grades, I would recommend the following supplies for writing and drawing: Grades…
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Mapmaking and Map Reading
Do you remember how to read a map? Do you teach your student(s) map reading fluency? Why would this skill still be necessary in an age of GPS Last year, this question was thrown in our faces when my family drove to Nova Scotia. After crossing the border into Canada, our phone signal stopped working.…
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