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My Twist on the Workbox System
What is a workbox? Basically, it’s a way to organize the home school day so that your children have a visual of exactly what they’re supposed to do during the day. If you’re interested in more info, you can watch this slideshow from the woman who created the system. After seeing the original workbox system,…
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Live your life in chapters
This word from Jessie Wise encourages me: Personally, I decided to put on hold some of my goals. But I held on to the wise council given me when my children were toddlers: “Live your life in chapters. You don’t have to do everything you want to do in life during this chapter of rearing…
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My POV of History
I know I’m supposed to write about curriculum today. I want to write about our curriculum — it’s one of my favorite things. I can talk for hours about curriculum and methods. But today I’m really busy, so I offer you my attitude about teaching history. My favorite subject is history. The time period doesn’t…
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Calculating the hours
Creating a schedule is kind of overwhelming me right now. I have 168 hours to work with in one week. I feel like I need my own cap and trade time scheme or Hermione’s time-turner. Here are the steps I took to create my schedule:Step 1: Begin with the end in mind.I start by considering…
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Planners for Moms
I’ve changed. I don’t know exactly when it happened. Sometime between baby #1 and yesterday. I realized it the other day when a dad came to the pool with his kids and the lessons were 15 minutes off-schedule. He was rather upset because it was going to throw off the rest of his morning. He…
Leslie Wiggins 