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A Thomas Jefferson Education
Mark and I are convinced that as of right now we are called to home school our kids. It is very overwhelming realizing that our children’s education and training is our responsibility. But we also...
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How we choose our curriculum
I have only been officially home schooling for two years. The first year we started, Maddie was in preschool and I didn’t use a curriculum. I figured I could help her learn her letters, numbers,...
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Incorporating Montessori principles…
It is important to me that as we home school our children their education is applicable to life situations. I want their education to be as hands on as possible. There are times when we have to do...
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Our fall curriculum looks like this
When Maddie started preschool I felt fairly confident that I could get her academically were she needed to go and I was right. However, because I now have one in first grade and three in preschool, I...
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How we picked our home school curriculum for 2014…
Maddie working hard at handwriting (not her favorite subject) Every year without fail around December or January I begin to pray about what we want and need our curriculum to look like for the next...
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We’ve changed our curriculum…again
Maddie working hard at handwriting (not her favorite subject) We thought we had our curriculum all picked out for next fall, we thought we were going to continue on with the 2nd grade My Father’s World...
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School is Around the Corner…
The bugs are out, the heat and humidity has driven the kids indoors, this is my cue to start fine tuning our school schedule, give the finishing touches on organizing workbooks, and start pumping the...
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Why We Have Chosen the Thomas Jefferson Education Method
What is Thomas Jefferson Education (TJE)? It is the learning theory that kids learn best when they are inspired and not required to learn. Which in this day and age sounds crazy. The question any sane...
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Looking Back at our First Year of Homeschooling
Mark and I had talked about homeschooling our kids from the very beginning. It was when we began receiving letters in the mail from our school district remind us to register our daughter for preschool...
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Are my Kids Where They Should be Academically
It seems over the last three years I have been challenged and continue to be challenged in everything I thought homeschooling would be like. To be honest the first couple of years we homeschooled it...
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Part 5: Naomi’s Passion Tailored Learning
My sweet, compassionate, encouraging Naomi is wise beyond her years. Her brain often functions as if it has thousands of browser windows open at one time. She struggles to fall asleep at night because...
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Part 6: Titus’ Passion Tailored Learning
Titus, his very name makes me smile and giggle. He is affectionate as he is funny. He runs around all day doing ninja kicks, saying funny stuff, and running up to us with hugs. He is also an introvert,...
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Part 7: Timothy’s Passion Tailored Learning
You may be wondering how Timothy’s passions can be tailored when he is only a year old. It’s funny, but even at a year old, he does already have interests and passions. He may not know that is what...
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Our First Day Back to School
We had our first official back to school day today. Well, honestly, we school throughout the year. We don’t technically take a “break” during the summer, but I do become more laid back and we only...
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We use unit studies to homeschool our kiddos to save our sanity
*I was given unit studies to help facilitate my review. All thoughts are honest and based upon our families experience. One of the first things I do to plan for the next year is figure out what areas...
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How do you give homeschool one on one time to multiple kids?
We utilize unit studies as much as possible in our homeschooling. Everything from science and history to art and family work time. Working together inspires the littles to learn and it inspires the...
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Five years later, does TJED work?
We always knew we wanted to create a different learning environment for our kids than we had growing up. We wanted their education to be different from a public, private or christian school. In one way...
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Inspiring an All in All relationship not religion
We were given the book All in All by B&H Publishing to help facilitate our review. All thoughts and opinions are based on our experience, they are honest and 100% ours. The moment I knew I was...
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Reading my new bible in story form
*I was given the CSB Reader’s Bible to help facilitate my review. All thoughts and opinions are my own and 100% honest. My bible is slowly falling a part. Pages have been torn out, the binding torn and...
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Joy in The Marvelous Mud House
*We were given The Marvelous Mud House to help facilitate our review. All thoughts and opinions are honest and based on our experience. This blog post contains affiliated links to a product that we...
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