As your homeschool child becomes proficient in multiplication, it’s time to introduce division. Typically, children become comfortable with division in their third-grade year of math. But the end of second grade is a good time to introduce the concept. Since math models God’s creational order, it helps to introduce division with physical objects. Using objects […]
Mastery Learning with Hard Lessons
One of your reasons for homeschooling, in addition to shaping a biblical worldview, is most likely your desire to give your children an education that is truly valuable to them. You don’t want to “teach to the test” or just push forward even if a lesson isn’t fully understood. Your goal is mastery learning. You […]
A Blackout Poem Writing Activity
Teaching elementary poetry writing can be enjoyable, especially when working with sensory poems or even simple shape poems. And there are hundreds of engaging poems for elementary ages that can help kids get interested in poetry. One of my favorites is “I Wave Good-bye When Butter Flies” by Jack Prelutsky. But what about teaching high […]
Attitude Affects Outcome
“Remember, Jennifer, attitude affects outcome.” I don’t know how many times I heard my dad say that to me when I was growing up, but it was obviously enough times that I find myself saying it to my own children now! It was one of those many “parent sayings” that I didn’t fully understand or […]
The Macroscopic World: Making a Moon Model
Just as it can be difficult to study the world on a microscopic level, it can also be hard to study things that are too large to make sense of. Models of large objects must be scaled down so that we can better understand them. In this activity from the BJU Press Science 4 Teacher’s Edition, […]
A Sensory Poem Writing Activity (Printable)
April is National Poetry Month. Here in South Carolina, it’s also one of the most beautiful months of the year—the temperature is nearly perfect (no stifling heat and humidity yet!), the mosquito population is under control, and the worst of allergy season is behind us. Do my kids and I want to sit inside and […]
Meet Your Distance Learning Teachers: Jessica Ingersoll
If you went to school as a kid, you may have had the odd experience of running into a teacher at the store. It’s still easy for kids who go to school to forget that teachers are real people who need groceries. But for kids who use only videos, it’s even easier to start thinking […]