Notebooking pages are a homeschooler’s best friend! Using them requires little planning and you can use them for whatever subject you are studying and with whatever age you have at home!
In my over 30 years in education, I haven’t found anything more effective in practicing writing skills than notebooking pages!
Your child will practice prewriting and thinking skills when orally retelling something you have read together and then writing those thoughts down.
I describe how to use these pages effectively to help you help your child become a proficient writer! I also share some fun ideas and examples of how we used notebooking pages!
This video is an overview of the writing process recommended for this age level to help them practice the skills and techniques required to write a properly formatted 5 paragraph essay.
Once they have the skills and knowledge to write this kind of essay, they will be ready to expand their skills and knowledge to write other advanced forms of essays.
This video shows you how to use nature study in your homeschool and study science topics at the same time.
Through the use of living books, nature hikes and nature studies, nature journaling, experiments, and activities, you can study the areas of biology, physical science and chemistry in a hands on, fun, and practical way!
This video describes and models how to teach your child early language skills naturally. I suggest ways to develop reading skills with specific kinds of books and how to get them on the road to reading.
I use techniques such as rhyme, rhythm, repetition, asking questions, discussing pictures and how they connect to the story being read, and following along with the words with your finger while reading aloud.
This video discusses the benefits a studying literature and how to study literature in middle and high school.
Literature study develops and practices valuable skills such as – thinking skills, processing, thought sequencing and organization, analytical skills, vocabulary and context usage, drawing conclusions, inferencing, attention to details and information recall to name a few – that can be used in all areas of life.
In this video, you will learn about different mind and learning styles in your learners ranging from the Gregorc Mind styles to Visual, Auditory, and Kinesthetic learners to Right Brain/Left Brain leaners in this workshop. We will discuss ways to identify what kind of learner you have and how to those learners learn best and what teaching methods and approaches appear to work most effectively for those learners.
In this video for teaching your elementary school age children how to write, this video gives you instructions, tips, and resources to use in teaching writing to children and explains why the preparation phase or “prewriting” stage is so important.
Learn about literary devices and figurative language like imagery, similes, metaphors, personification, alliteration, and hyperbole and practice identifying them in ‘Twas the Night Before Christmas and The Grinch song.
Download the free printables with all the information and practice pages in the free packet Christmas Fun with Literary Devices in our shop.
This video is Part 1 of the series reviewing the terms, definitions and examples of each literary device.
Learn about literary devices and figurative language like imagery, similes, metaphors, personification, alliteration, and hyperbole and practice identifying them in ‘Twas the Night Before Christmas and The Grinch song.
Download the free printables with all the information and practice pages in the free packet Christmas Fun with Literary Devices in our shop.
This video is Part 2 and uses it to practice identifying these devices in “Twas the Night Before Christmas and The Grinch song.
This video is an overview of what you learn in how to use a relaxed homeschooling method with a unit study format. It includes tons of resources and handouts and audio files and slide shows showing you step by step to create your own unit studies about a topic you choose and including different subject areas and grade levels to save you time, energy, and money in your homeschooling! Check this out and then visit my shop to purchase this workshop to help you complete your planning!
