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Feel More Productive With a Minimum Viable Homeschool Day

There’s not a mom out there that doesn’t desire a more productive homeschool day. Juggling the many needs of running a home, caring for family needs, and nurturing a marriage can often leave us out of time or out of energy when it comes to teaching our...

When Orton-Gillingham Isn’t Enough

Teaching Tips

Several years ago, one of our kids was majorly struggling with learning to read, despite 3 years of intense professional Orton-Gillingham (OG) reading instruction. In fact, at 11-years-old, he was still struggling to do much more than sound out three letter words! It...

What is Executive Function? Signs of Executive Function Weakness in Kids

Focus & Motivation, Organization, Teaching Tips

Does your child know what they’re supposed to do—but can’t seem to get started? Do they constantly lose things, forget directions, underestimate how long assignments will take, or become completely overwhelmed by a project that has several steps? Maybe you...

How Teaching Advanced Phonemic Awareness Boosts Reading Fluency

Resources, Teaching Tips

One of my goals for this year is to read more. Not with my kids – but for my own learning! Coincidentally, I have stacks of books around our house that have been recommended to me as a dyslexia tutor/advocate. I’m plowing through some of these now by...

Homeschooling the Less-Academic Child

Encouragement

I read a beautiful blog post last week from Sara at Classically Homeschooling that really got me thinking. Sara is a classical educator (as is my family) and was writing about homeschooling ‘non academic’ kids with the classical method. The classical model...