Today’s Real Homeschooling for Real Families post is written by Pat from Breakthrough Homeschooling. She is writing about using Unit Studies in Middle School.
The middle school years are commonly considered a time of transition in the traditional school setting, and it’s not any different for our homeschools. Our kiddos are moving from the fun and free years of games and play-as-learning, towards the more structured and focused high school years, which are just around the corner.
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If you are planning a road trip then you just might want to consider these reasons to make pit stops a priority. Even Sally Clarkson in her book The Lifegiving Home talks about the importance of pit stops!
If you are headed far from home you may need some guidance as far as hotel stays or nearby attractions. While most of our trips are planned way in advance due to them being press trips occasionally we take an impromptu getaway where this tip is very useful.
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It’s Summer and like many people you might be doing some Beach learning or taking a visit to the Beach. We don’t live very close to a beach but can still learn about it through reading and hands-on play.
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We are fortunate to live within driving distance to a very large aquarium called Newport Aquarium. Today we are sharing some of the fun things to see at the Newport Aquarium. I wish I had more specific information to share with you about each species but it’s a very busy place and kids tend to wander off in excitement if not watched carefully.
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Number recognition is a very important preschool skill that every parent hopes their child achieves quickly and easily. At our house we begin this process at birth and during many diaper changes after by counting fingers and toes on baby and mom or dad. When we get frustrated or our child gets frustrated we try to remind them to breath in and out slowly while counting to ten. Repetition of numbers and letter helps to create the connections in the brain in order to learn that new concept more easily and permanently like number recognition.
This week as part of the free unit study series I am offering a free Strawberry 1-10 Number Recognition free printable. You can use this sheet in many ways but I am going to show you what we did with Lil’ Red who is 32 months old.
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