Where to Begin When You are New to Home Schooling

new to home schooling

Are you new to home schooling? Have you ever thought about home schooling your children, but you were not sure where to start? I have another Guest post for you! We have Amanda Wilson, author of Heading into Homeschool: A Faith-Based Step-by-Step Plan for Beginning to Homeschool . You can also find Amanda at www.maestramom.com. She blogs about home schooling and parenting, and she has many helpful resources on her website too. Amanda’s book is all about getting started with […]

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10 New Things We Learned in Virtual School Week 2

10 Things We Learned in Virtual School Week 2

Where do I even begin to describe what managing virtual school is like at the House of Many Young Men? Since all people and family situations are unique, all of our virtual school experiences are also somewhat different. This is how it goes down at our house. If I did not constantly check on, like borderline harass, my fourth and second graders, one would only get a fraction of his work done, one would not even watch his classes, and […]

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The Schooling at Home Support Group is Officially Open

The Schooling at Home Support Group is Officially Open

About a month ago, I asked my Facebook friends if anyone was up for starting a Virtual School/Home School support group. More parents than ever before are at home all day with their children during the school day. Some of us are sending our kids to school for part of the week, also known as the hybrid model. Others of us are trying out the Virtual School, which does look much different than it did in the spring. Still others […]

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5 Printable Summer Journal Pages to Get Your Kids Writing

free printable summer journal pages

Do you vow every summer to make sure your kids still read and write over the break? I know I do. Then I am always thoroughly disappointed when no one wants to do anything of the sort. In fact, as a mom of all boys, I feel like all anyone ever wants to do is stare at screens all day. That is our battle as a generation. Every year I enter in with delusions of grandeur, but that is okay. […]

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11 Truths from Virtual School Week We Lost Count

11 truths from virtual school week we lost count

This is our very last week of virtual school. I am so excited. It feels like getting to finally take off the 100 pound backpack you’ve been carrying around. Don’t you think? Here are a few of my truths from the past three months… #1. Apparently, telling the kids to, “Go get some exercise sometime today,” did not satisfy my 8th grader’s P.E. requirement. The P.E. teacher sent an email threatening to give my son an F in P.E. I […]

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15 Fun and Simple Games to Start Your School Day

15 Fun and Simple Games to Start Your School day

When this whole crisis home school fiasco started, John David, our resident first grader, sat down beside me and laid out exactly how his school day usually goes. He fully expected our distance learning day to mirror the way things run at regular school. Oh, boy, was he set up for disappointment or what? However, this did give me good ideas. This year John David has a teacher who makes school very fun, so she is someone I should be […]

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Quarantine Week 5, Computer School Week 1: It’s like patience training.

Quarantine Week 5, Computer School Week 1: It's like patience training.

This past week I stopped every few days to jot down a paragraph or two of how quarantine was going for us. I had no idea it was going to be such a challenging week, thanks to the addition of virtual schooling. Our school only involves a little of the classroom videos. It is mostly, “Go to this website, click on the list, click on the links, do the problems. Take the quiz at the end. Create a brochure about […]

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Into the Unknown: Virtual School Nerves and Anxiety

into the unknown: virtual school nerves and anxiety

Is anyone else feeling nervous about their kids beginning virtual school? I feel like this is an issue that parents across the entire world are dealing with. We have been out of school for the sheltering-in-place or quarantine or social distancing, whatever you want to call it, for a month now. Seriously. An entire month has passed. During that month, we here in Maryland were given home-school packets of suggested work. Thankfully, they gave us all the benefit of the […]

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15 Helpful Websites and Apps for Your Quarantine Home School

I still cannot believe we are doing this whole quarantine home school thing, but hey, we are all in this together. Right? From reading texts from friends and my modern-day gossip column (Facebook), I gather that some schools provided solid plans for students who are at home while others did not. We live in Maryland. Our teachers were given less than 24 hours of notice before schools shut down. Therefore, they cannot guarantee that all children have internet access at […]

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Exciting Announcement– My Israel Book is Free for Two Days!

tour Israel in pictures and stories

I am up to my neck in home school work at the moment. Two are reading contentedly. One just finished Dog Man and is choosing to whine rather than pick his next book to read. The other one is begrudgingly beginning Hunger Games. His teacher has outlawed many of the books that he would rather read. Since school here is only cancelled through April, we still have to follow the guidelines they gave us. Fun, fun, fun. But I wanted […]

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