Weird, Unsocialized Homeschoolers
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Written by Rachel of You’ve Got This. Singing! Skip-Counting! Games! We’ve been doing it all year, and now it is time to put it into practice. We are jumping into a short multiplication review, and then a long, focused study on division. All that prep work to make sure my little guy knows his facts has all been in preparation for… View Post
I wonder if poor math ever gets its feelings hurt. I mean, when you ask kids their favorite subject, math usually isn’t the answer. (And when it is, people have a tendency to act as if math fans are weird.) When the question is, “What’s your least favorite subject?” that’s when poor math usually gets some recognition. Although it’s not… View Post
Written by Tara Mitchell of Homeschool Preschool. Preschoolers love activities based on the fun books they read. Counting activities for preschoolers help them understand the concept of one-to-one correspondence. This hands-on activity, based on Ten Eggs in a Nest, will have preschoolers practicing counting and adding one more. Ten Eggs in a Nest, by Marilyn Sadler, follows Gwen and Red Rooster through the… View Post
There are people in the world who love math. They love the logic of it – the fact that there are right and wrong answers that don’t change depending upon the circumstances. You know like how spelling insists that it’s “i before e except after c,” then there are words like weird and caffeine. (Two of my favorite spelling-rule-breaking words,… View Post
Written by Tara Mitchell of Homeschool Preschool. Hands-on activities are an ideal way to let kids have fun with their homeschool lessons. However, hands-on activities prove intimidating for many parents. They can’t think of anything fun to do, or they worry about the cost of putting together the activities. They may even wonder how to fit one more thing in their homeschool day…. View Post