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Two Tips for Teaching Multiple Ages: Same Topic, Different Assignments

Someone again, has asked me to talk more about how to manage different ages of children. Before I talk about differentiating types of assignments, I have to say that I think the real struggle in wrapping our brains around teaching multiple ages is our “traditional school centered” mind set. In school, you have children all in the same grade. What’s interesting is that those children are not all at the same level–even if they are the same age. Teachers often group students, pull them out, and otherwise differentiate instruction for kids in their grade. I also have to offer some … Continue reading →

Multi-Aged Tips: First Day of the Month

Now that I’m officially homeschooling two and have three more that are sort of ‘tagging’ along, I’ve been making major revisions and evaluating my previous schedule to try and include more of my children in more of the activities. Mind you, it’s not that I feel my younger three need to homeschool. . .but they really want to do something more formal than what we’ve been doing and so a compromise of sorts has been born. One aspect of this new ‘compromised’ schedule is the first day of the month. The first day of every month, I’ve decided to set … Continue reading →

Gasp! My Older Children Help Their Little Siblings

I had no idea that this was a controversial subject in the homeschooling arena. We have survived on encouraging our children to work together. It has allowed me to homeschool all of the children at once. I have even (double gasp) had my oldest child read to my youngest child. Against Working Together In fairness, I shouldn’t quite say that moms are against children working together. What I should say is that there is a section of the home schooling population that feels like it’s unfair to the older children to have to always do things with the littler ones. … Continue reading →

Tips for Homeschooling the Creative Child: Math

Creative Children usually start off having no problems with math. Counting is a simple concept and easy to understand. Adding and subtraction is a no-brainer, especially when they can see with pictures and manipulative how two plus two makes four. For many creative children, multiplication can pose a problem. These children have a hard time just memorizing the facts. They must see and feel the facts in action. There are several techniques and materials you can use to help your creative child to understand math. For younger kids, turn their math worksheets into coloring pages. Have them color their numbers, … Continue reading →

2006 in Review: Homeschooling Blog at a Glance

As a new homeschooling blogger at Families.com, I wanted to know everything that has been discussed to date. In response to my own curiosity, and in an effort to make perusing our articles easier for you, our readers, I have compiled all of the blogs for the year 2006. Deciding to Homeschool Why homeschool Am I qualified for this? Reasons that Homeschooling Works! My Most Important Advice for Homeschoolers. The Cost of Homeschooling Instead of standing up for their own kids, why not stand up for all kids? Disclaimer: I am hardly an expert in education. Did You Know? ‘Empirical … Continue reading →

Tips for Home schooling Multi-Aged Children: Printable Worksheets for Preschoolers

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There are numerous times during the day, when you simply have to work individually with your older children and cannot include the little ones. For me, these are also the times when my preschooler just HAS to have my attention. Preschoolers, with their inquisitive minds and insatiable appetite for getting into things, are many home school moms’ biggest challenge. In an effort to try and figure out how to keep my 3 year old occupied without needing my help, I developed a folder of resources and worksheets that I got free from the internet. When all else fails, she has … Continue reading →

Balancing Mulitple Ages in Your Homeschool

Homeschooling moms of multiple children face a unique challenge. These homeschooling moms need to manage multiple ages and stages of children under one homeschooling roof. Basically, she needs to learn the art of a one room schoolhouse or a juggling act. Each option comes with its own challenges yet each can be successful. A mom must decide for herself how she will balance her day and her children’s education. There is no right way but oddly enough there are plenty of wrong ways. For example, if your home is a source of stress or children falling behind in their studies … Continue reading →

Creating a Year Round Notebook for Preschoolers

I have mentioned before that I’m really not a big fan of doing preschool curriculums. I think for the vast majority of preschoolers, having to sit down every day and write, and attempt reading, and doing math is just too much. I’m not saying they can’t do it. . .but I think they get farther by being allowed to play and explore. However, I have two school aged children and three preschoolers. You can be sure that there are times when I either need to occupy my preschoolers or they really want to take part in what we‘re doing. I … Continue reading →

Family Time at the Zoo

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What could be more fun for a family with young children than a trip to the zoo? My family is lucky that we live only a few miles from the Bronx Zoo. It makes it very convenient to visit the zoo for a couple of hours or an afternoon. In fact, my wife and I decided to become members of the zoo so that we wouldn’t feel obligated to make an all day excursion out of a trip to the zoo. One thing that I would suggest is that you only consider going to the zoo when your children are … Continue reading →

Homeschool Curriculum Glossary “Mother Goose-Mystery)

Mother Goose Time is a preschool curriculum that is complete and ready to use. It is packaged by the month. It includes educational and craft activates. Mott Media curriculum is based on the Three R’s. “Media curriculum features a self-instructional format, continuous progress academics, graded vocabulary, Christian values and motivating activities that result in productivity, national pride, loyalty, and spiritual revival.” Mountainwood Talking Letters program teaches “young children to associate a letter’s sound with its shape. Each letter has a colorful character associated with it, and an adventure story that explains its shape and the appropriate sound. Once the sounds … Continue reading →