Today, I’m answering a question from a homeschooling mom asking about what comes with Daily Lesson Plans. Here’s the question: I want to make sure that I understand ordering options correctly. The 1st grade daily lesson plans don’t include the…
Did you know that trees of the same species can help each other by sharing food and water? Or that an injured or “elderly” tree’s neighbors will pass food along to save it? Or that trees can defend themselves against…
Brain scientists say that in “real life” we usually learn more than one thing at a time. And we often learn something using more than one sense at a time. So, integrating subjects, rather than artificially separating each subject, aligns…
Our co-op kids loved our first Middle Ages read aloud – the younger ones, particularly, were intrigued by The Whipping Boy: the exciting story of “Prince Brat” and Jemmy. This young boy received the Prince’s well-earned spankings since it was…
Personally, I don’t like my curriculum telling me exactly what to say and do. Maybe I have other things to say than my curriculum does about Christopher Columbus, the Civil War, or the ecology movement. Maybe I don’t want my kids to…
The Question Box – an Adaptable Lesson Plan I am not sure where it came from or where it went, to be honest, but we used to have a small, shoebox-sized hexagonal box. It had large red and green paisleys…
