by Anne Elliott | Jul 6, 2012 | Blog, Homeschooling Methods
How many more weeks until school starts at your house? We’re planning to start back up again the first week of August — and it just recently dawned on me how soon that will be! So I thought I’d make a list of the things I need to get done in the four...
by Anne Elliott | Jun 29, 2012 | Blog, Homeschooling Methods, Homeschooling Philosophy
Sometimes we mothers spend all our time figuring out which curriculum we should purchase for our children, or how to make lesson plans for the coming year, and we completely forget that we as teachers also need to grow and learn. Here are 10 ways that you can...
by Anne Elliott | Feb 10, 2012 | Bible, Blog, Homeschooling Methods, Homeschooling Philosophy
This post was written in 2012, before we started writing curriculum for all sorts of subjects over at HomeschoolingTorah and here at Foundations Press. You know what would be awesome? Awesome would be a camera crew going into a variety of homes on an average Tuesday...
by Anne Elliott | Feb 3, 2012 | Blog, Homeschooling Methods
This time of year marks a new season of curriculum “shopping” among homeschoolers. For me personally, I start shopping in the spring because we get our tax refund soon, so I want to know how much money I should set aside for the coming school year. I also...
by Anne Elliott | Jan 6, 2012 | Blog, Parenting
Way last June (!), I received this note: Please, please could you help me out with something? Sometimes I think I missed out on your “foundational fours” and need to spend time going back to that. Our multi-grade classroom is not working, and I’m...
by Anne Elliott | Nov 25, 2011 | Blog, Homeschooling Methods
Our seven kids love to play games with mom and dad! We enjoy games more than worksheets in school, video-game tournaments more than television, and board games more than other family activities. As a homeschooling mom, I love how playing games together as a family...