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Awaken a Love of ASL Using Fairy Tales
Awaken a Love of ASL Using Fairy Tales I’m going to let you in on a little secret, folks. Ever since I was a little girl, I’ve wanted to learn sign language. I’m dating myself here, but back in the...
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Learn Spanish at Home with Rosetta Stone Homeschool
Learn Spanish at Home with Rosetta Stone Homeschool My 7-year-old son, Leo, spent one year in a 1/2-day public kindergarten before we began to [suddenly, unexpectedly] homeschool. It was a pretty...
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Learn About Map Grids with Battleship
Learn About Map Grids with Battleship An important map skill is the understanding of map grids and coordinates, and this concept can be a little tricky for young children to grasp. An easy way to...
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Games that Teach Map Skills
Games that Teach Map Skills Our family is game-obsessed. One of the biggest homeschooling perks for this game-obsessed family is that we don’t have to wait until the weekend rolls around to try to...
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Easy Ways to Learn Geography
Easy Ways to Learn Geography I’ve said it before, and I’ll probably say it again, but the very best ideas are often the most simple ones. I’m here to share a super-easy and fun way to sneak in some...
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A Map-Themed Family Movie Night
A Map-Themed Family Movie Night One of the many things that I love about Brave Writer is the fact that the Brave Writer Lifestyle includes family movie night. I learned early on in my homeschooling...
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40 Sites To Bookmark if Your Child is Gifted
Parenting a gifted or twice-exceptional child can be a challenge. I wouldn’t change our journey for the world, but parenting and educating our PG/2E son has been one of our life’s greatest challenges....
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Code Master by ThinkFun
If you’ve been following this site for any length of time, you’re already aware that for years my oldest son, Leo, was terrified of television. We’re talking phobia-level afraid. Many people would...
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This Too Shall Pass… but in the meantime, I’m asking for help
If there is anything I’ve learned from my almost 7 and a half years of this motherhood gig, it is that there will be highs and there will be lows. We’re in a LOW, folks. This too shall pass. I’ll say...
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Teaching Kids to Code
Teaching Kids to Code What is coding? Put simply, coding is the language of computers. Learning to code is like learning a foreign language. Leo often calls it Computer Talk, and that is a wonderful...
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Yoga for Children: Tips and Resources
Yoga for Children: Tips and Resources I fell in love with yoga in middle school and while there have been seasons of my life when I fell out of practice for a bit (Hello new job! Hello new baby!), the...
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Chemistry Resources Kids Love
In a recent post, I mentioned that my children have been on a chemistry kick. I’ve had several readers inquire about our other chemistry materials, so I felt a post was warranted. Today, I’m sharing...
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The Best Sensory Gifts for Kids
Do you have a child who struggles with what I call sensory STUFF? What is sensory stuff? Well, it’s a catch-all term that I use to describe a certain type of kiddo who seeks and/or avoids sensory...
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This road trip was brought to you by
My husband and I thought we’d be that family that travels with their children. We’d head away for a weekend here, a family vacation there. We figured that if we did it from an early age, we’d grow...
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Simple Puzzle Hack
I just learned that January 29 is National Puzzle Day. I have had this post kickin’ around in my drafts for quite some time and I thought it would be appropriate to share today. If you are a puzzle...
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My Kid is Gifted. (Yes, I’m THAT Mom.)
G-g-g-g-ifted. I used to stumble over the word if I said it at all. Parents are afraid of using the g-word. Once you throw it out there, people assume certain things about you and about your child....
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When it Feels Like Worry is Winning
I often describe my son as a World-Class Worrier. In his eight years on this planet, he has conquered a wealth of worries. Worry is tricky. It ebbs and flows. It changes shape. It pops up, out of...
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Gifted Homeschooling Curriculum: Pre-K, K, and 2nd grade
I don’t know how it happened, but August is here. Whether you like it or not, fall is knocking at our door.It’s time for many of us to start thinking about September and back to school and curriculum...
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Code Master by ThinkFun
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My Little Poppies’ Picks {weekend wrap-up}
My Little Poppies’ Picks I share heaps of goodness during the week, folks: from articles, to posts, to books, to moments, to resources. Here’s just a bit of what I found wonderful this week! New from...
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