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Together Time Video and Bookmark
Still worried about Together Time? Take it easy Mama. The only way you can mess it up is by taking it too seriously! Take a breath. The one thing that makes homeschooling HOME schooling is… you! So, be you. Invite your children to join you on the journey. Here’s a bookmark freebie to encourage you along the way. And here’s a rambling video of me, being me, discussing Together Time. Together Time On! Catch you next time. 🙂
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Finding Your Writer Mojo
Writing is hard Sometimes I flat out don’t want to do it. I toss my head and arms around and stamp my feet on the carpet and whine. I just don’t want to write. On days when writing seems impossible, it helps to fall back on basic routines and tools to help get me back in the creative mood. First: Prayer Often I forget this step. I hit up the keyboard and blast away with the words. Until my well runs dry and I’m pulling out my hair trying to remember why I chose this profession in the first place. Prayer resets my mind. It realigns me and gets me…
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Checklist for Together Time
Also Known as Morning Basket Time: Together Time is the creamy center of our homeschooling day. It’s the time we learn together, discuss together, and delight together. If no other formal instruction happens, for the day, together time keeps us on track and focused as a family. So, how do we run our Together Time? We keep it simple with the following few steps. 1- Start with the Spirit Bible and/or Devotions come first. They don’t have to include a craft or an object lesson. God’s word is truly all you need. The ultimate open and go curriculum. We’re working through the 90 days through the New Testament Challenge at…
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Confused by Curriculum?
The Homeschool Curriculum Summit 2.0 Is it possible to homeschool with confidence? The biblical answer is, yes! There is a promise found throughout Scripture for those who build on the foundation of God’s truth; in Psalm 1, we read that “Blessed is the man who walks not in the counsel of the wicked, nor stands in the way of sinners, nor sits in the seat of scoffers, but his delight is in the law of the Lord…. In all that he does, he prospers.” And when families begin their home education journey by centering it on Christ and His Word, they can have the assurance that their investment will last…
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Another Visit to Honey Pot
Coming soon! Lydia Everett wants nothing more than to regain her youth before she turns forty. Strapping on her running shoes, she challenges herself to complete the Lavender Lane 5K. Her path to the finish line is thwarted when she stumbles upon Averie Stardust. She finds the tender-hearted relaxation artist , and internet celebrity, bleeding in the middle of the race track. There are no witnesses and no way she crawled out there on her own. How did she get there? Who wants to hurt her? Lydia races to find the answers knowing Averie’s attacker will only rest once she’s dead. Follow Sarah Hualde on Amazon for updates and possible…
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Hang Out With Me
Too tired to read another blog post but still need encouragement and information? Come hang out at my new Channel on YouTube. I’m the same crazy coffee lady just in a different format. For now, the schedule is the verse of the week Mondays, to do list Tuesdays, Write with Me Wednesdays, Book Chat Thursdays and Free for all Fridays. Sometimes I wear makeup. Sometimes I don’t. I strive to be real with you and cheer you on. We talk about books, coffee, curriculum, coffee, mom life/stress, and coffee. Watch my video skills grow, laugh at my hair, be heard, and lift each other up in the comments. Visit my…
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Encouraging Blog Series
Ever homeschool through a hard season? Going through one right now? Starting March 1, 2019 and continuing through the 29th the series How to Homeschool in the Midst of Hard Things runs on two Blogs. HideTheChocolate.com And IntentionalInLife.com Click one of the links above to check out the details. Many expert contributors will be offering their energy and experience to lift you up. I’ll be guest posting! Yay! There’s a Facebook group dedicated to the event. You can find posts there and even Facebook Lives. Click on the link below to join the Facebook group. There are contests and coupon codes and a ton of encouragement. Come and be uplifted.…
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Using Clay in our Homeschool
Learning how to cope with and use dyslexia isn’t a walk in the park. It’s an epic trek across foreign lands rife with new foes and hidden dangers. Or at least it can feel that way. In the past two posts about reading remediation we’ve chatted about fluency practice and Pathway Readers. In the Pathway Reader post, I told you I write down words that stump my student. This post will explain what I do with those words. When my child was first diagnosised with dyslexia, our assessor offered many techniques and solutions to get us started on the road to reading and understanding. One of the methods suggested was…
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Pathway Readers & Dyslexia
I sat on the floor, criss-cross applesauce, cradling my sobbing eleven-year-old. I prayed, patted her hair, and tried to be the encouraging mama. But nothing soothed my student. What caused all the tears? A boring reader. Dyslexia is hard. When your child enters tweendom the differences between kids show more fiercely. My child was noticing. Not body types or fashion sense but her lag in reading ability and speed. Then, on top of all of that, after battling with dyslexia through a tutoring session her reward was a boring, kindergarten reader. The same boring and senseless sentences. It was so hard on my student I began writing my own short…
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Victory Drill Book
How our family uses Victory Drill Book for reading remediation. This post might contain affiliate links. Just thought you’d like to know. We’ve used many, many, MANY tools, sets, and kits to help teach reading. I could cheer for several curriculum and program providers. Some work quickly and then fizzle. Others take too long to integrate and discourage my students. In our home, reading curriculums work until they don’t. Changes in hormones, changes in mental capacity, and changes in attention span interfere and morph our remediation routines and needs. This mama is tired of stalling and running off to purchase the next package that promises to help, only to reach…
