By Melissa Smith The Hurricane brought some strange weather to Texas this year. We’ve had ice storms (yes, plural) and unending gray and rainy days. While I am very thankful...
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20 Ways to Ring in the New Year with Kids
by Amy Vickrey, Dawn Spence, & Peggy Ployhar It’s the end of the year 2021 and the holidays bring down time. This lack of structure brings freedom and...
Strengthening Family Bonds (Bonus Christmas Reading List)
Cheryl Swope, M.Ed., SPED Homeschool Partners – Cheryl Swope Consulting and Memoria Press “God sets the solitary in families.” (Psalm 68:6) When we homeschool our children with special needs, we...
How to Homeschool through Illness – Moms Share Their Experience
SPED Homeschool Team Every month, we ask our SPED Homeschool team to provide insight into their own personal journey with homeschooling. This month we asked a few of our...
Keeping Our Active Kids Learning with Movement
By SPED Homeschool Team To be successful homeschoolers, we need to embrace all the different aspects of our child. A big aspect that needs a lot of attention is...
How to Create A Hands-On Unit Study
By Dawn Spence When I taught public school, the one thing that inspired me to teach was creating units. A fellow teacher and I created a space unit for our...
A Case for Embracing Silliness in Your Homeschool
By Cheryl Swope, M.Ed Far and few, far and fewAre the lands where the Jumblies live.— Edward Lear Amidst all the academic rigor, children need a little nonsense. Not only...
Writing, Reading, and Other Homeschooling Essentials
By Cheryl Swope, M.Ed “Ever since the dawn of time, man has needed to work.” Thus began my eleven-year-old son’s thinking paper. The topic: why he should have been cleaning...
Fun & Educational Ways to Integrate the Olympics with Your Homeschool
By Peggy Ployhar Are you looking for ways to incorporate the 2018 Winter Olympics into your daily homeschool schedule? Look no further. The ideas below can be used with kids...
Growing in the Shade
By Cheryl Swope One hot Missouri June when my children were very young, we decorated our front porch with a large white container of flowering impatiens. The pink and...