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Counting Bear Activities
Bear Counters are a fun, colorful tool for preschool through early elementary school. What can you do with them besides count?
Patterns. Arrange the bears in patterns, simple to intricate, for your child to copy or complete.
Sorting. Mix all the bears together and let your preschooler sort them into the appropriate colored cups.
Math [...]
Hands-on Activities to Enhance any Study
Our family likes to use hands-on activities to enhance our learning. Some of our favorite activities are:
Building maps. From salt dough maps to edible maps made from cookie dough, seeing the topography of a continent, country or state really makes your studies come alive and provides an excellent visual aid for exploring geography.
Creating [...]
What is a Unit Study?
What is a unit study?
A unit study, often called a thematic or topical study is simply a method of incorporating all subject matters into the study of a given topic. Simply put, unit studies allow for immersion into a topic of interest by including all subjects — history, science, reading, writing, math — in the [...]
What to do with Toddlers
Toddlers are curious, inquisitive and adventurous… and they can make homeschooling an older child tricky. So, what can you do to constructively occupy your toddler when your older child needs some one-on-one attention?
1. Play-dough
If you're schooling at the kitchen table, this is the perfect time to pull out the Play-dough [...]
Assessing Your Child's Progress
One of the biggest concerns homeschooling parents have is how to objectively assess their child's progress. Here are a few simple assessment tools any parent can utilize:
1. Observation.
If your child is reading this year and last year she wasn't, you know she's progressing. If he's using a workbook for math and is passing [...]
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