Homeschooling is not all sunshine and rainbows. Do not get me wrong, I love the educational opportunity and lifestyle that homeschool has given us. In fact, I am planning a future on post on reasons to love homeschooling. But sometimes, things are just not working and a change is required. Not because of a rough… Continue reading Tuesday Teaching Tip #16: Knowing when to pivot
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Five ways for your students to fall in love with Biology
Use videos to help explain complex topics, like Amoeba Sisters and Crash Course Biology. Teach concepts with fun, hands-on experiences. Labs can be engaging and fun without specialized equipment or complicated prep. Use models! Engage students by building models of biological systems. Explaining the process and drawing parallels between models and real-world phenomena utilizes critical… Continue reading Five ways for your students to fall in love with Biology
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Status update on making complete biology units for homeschoolers
Anyone who follows my store on TeachersPayTeachers.com has probably noticed that new biology products have been appearing rather consistently. Since deciding to create a biology curriculum last spring to use with my own homeschool ninth grader, the ideas have been flowing! Biology is best taught and learned with hands-on labs, games, and models. These units… Continue reading Status update on making complete biology units for homeschoolers
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Tuesday Teaching Tip #10: Take care of end of semester stuff while it is fresh
This marks the last week of our homeschool’s fall semester. When my kids were younger, I did not think about January until January. Now that my two homeschoolers that are left are both high schoolers, I have a few things that I like to take care of before my mind goes on Christmas vacation: Print… Continue reading Tuesday Teaching Tip #10: Take care of end of semester stuff while it is fresh
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Tuesday Teaching Tip #9: Defining self-care in a busy season
It is just over two weeks until Christmas. My oldest two, a college freshman and high school senior, have finals and papers due at the community college they attend this week. My youngest, a ninth grader, still has one more week of homeschool after this before we take a break. We have Christmas parties, drama… Continue reading Tuesday Teaching Tip #9: Defining self-care in a busy season
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Tuesday Teaching Tip #8: Make a Christmas Around the World unit for December
(As an Amazon Associate, I receive commission for purchases made through Amazon links in this post.) If you ask my youngest, who is now a freshman in high school, what her favorite things about being homeschooled have been, she will tell you she loved centers on Fridays (preschool and elementary school) and Christmas Around the… Continue reading Tuesday Teaching Tip #8: Make a Christmas Around the World unit for December
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Free lesson plans for Christmas in Spanish speaking countries for high school
(As an Amazon Associate, I receive commission for purchases made through Amazon links in this post.) When my kids were younger, we would use December to learn about other countries and how they celebrated Christmas by to crafting, cooking, and reading stories planned in a Christmas Around the World unit. It took a lot of… Continue reading Free lesson plans for Christmas in Spanish speaking countries for high school
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Practical gift ideas for a homeschool mom
(This post contains Amazon Affiliate links. Purchases made through these links support this blog. Thanks!) It is the time of year when gift lists are made and deals are sought. If you are wondering what kind of practical, everyday items would be good for your favorite homeschool mom, or for your own wish list, here… Continue reading Practical gift ideas for a homeschool mom
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Tuesday Teaching Tip #1: Use your local library
(I started sending Tuesday Teaching Tip notes to the followers of my TeachersPayTeachers.com store, North Star Homeschool Resources., and decided to post the tips here as well. Enjoy!) Tuesday Teaching Tip #1 is one of the best for homeschoolers: use your local library. Public libraries are gold mines of free resources for teachers and homeschoolers!… Continue reading Tuesday Teaching Tip #1: Use your local library
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English Language Arts for 9th Grade
When my youngest was in first grade, we switched to The Good and the Beautiful for ELA. She used that curriculum along with All About Spelling through 7th grade. Since there is not a Level 8 and I did not feel that she was ready for high school ELA, we used Cover Story by Clear… Continue reading English Language Arts for 9th Grade
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