Category: Blog posts
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Travel IS Educational! Honest!
This is something that took me a while to convince myself of – that traveling to a new spot with my kids could count as educational, even when I wasn’t being intentional about teaching them how to calculate mileage or how to spell the name of a new city. There is a certain type of…
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What Rural Gets Right
Six years ago, in 2018, I was staying up late at night to finish coursework toward my Talented and Gifted Endorsement through online classes at University of Iowa. Now, I actually am teaching TAG in our local school district 20 hours a week. I have a chance to put some of my ideas into practice,…
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Planning your School Year
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What’s so Hilarious about Homeschooling?
Not much, usually, when I am in the middle of it all. Homeschooling is a serious commitment, and a solemn undertaking, and I take it pretty seriously almost every day. There are lessons to learn, books to read, art projects and science experiments to do, and field trips to attend. Most of these tasks require…