15 Must-Have Features for Your Special Needs Writing Program
Special Needs denotes that the needs are unique, and no cookie cutter approach to learning will work. Knowledge must simply pass through different delivery methods. However, when it comes to teaching special needs children to write, experts do agree that writing instruction should include these exemplary features: 15 Must-Have Features for Your Special Needs Writing […]
A Voice for the Voiceless: An Abortion Story
A Seventh Grader View of Abortion I wrote my first anti-abortion paper in seventh grade. Well, it really wasn’t about abortion. It was about another controversial piece of news known as the “Karen Ann Quinlan Decision. Karen’s parents sought the court’s help to remove life support from their daughter who was in a vegetative state. […]
Are you in Godly First Responder Training?
Are you in Godly First Responder Training? I am. What is a First Responder? Definition: Someone trained to respond to an emergency or problem. Life.is.not.easy. It always seems like some curveball comes sailing over the dreamy, only-in my-mind, white-picket fence of my life and disrupts my ideals or shatters my expectations. Many of my first […]
Brock Eastman
Brock Eastman is one of the featured authors in Here to Help Learning’s mini-series, Meet the Authors found in the Write-a-Book project. (Essay Writing Level-Flight 3). On camera, he graciously shares with HTHL students his personal writing tips for traveling through the writing process. In 2013, I had the pleasure of spending a day with […]
Unlocking the Mystery of Teaching Writing
Teaching writing to my children often produced tears. It could be summed up as #thestruggle. If I made a chart tracking the tears shed during specific subjects in our homeschool day, it would look like this: Teaching a child to write is hard. Learning to write is hard. Writing is plain old hard work. Many […]
Setting Computer Time Limits
Setting computer time limits and teaching responsible viewing habits goes beyond setting an arbitrary number of hours of screen viewing. It is an opportunity to teach our children the value of time. When we plan and schedule, we are managing the most precious of all commodities, time. Time, marked by each breath, is a beautiful […]
Planning Your Nervous Breakdown
With all your planning and organizing for your homeschool, have you planned your nervous breakdown? Do you have a plan for, not “if it happens”, but “when it will happen”? Being an organized chick, I now plan mine….in detail. My DIY plan has helped me through the years and even today. The Mayo Clinic defines […]
Moving On to the Next Writing Level
Please Note: This Home to Home Blog Post is a response to an Ask Beth question. I invite you to join in on the conversation. Let’s help each other out! HTHL member and co-op leader, Andrea P. asked, “How do I help my students transition from one writing skill level to the next?” Pack your […]
Our Homeschool Day-Then and Now
Welcome to our homeschool day from years gone by, and welcome to a day in the life of our homeschool today. As I look back or look to today, I rest in knowing the goals remain the same. Let me take you back to the year 2003. Welcome to our homeschool, Rancho Mora Homeschool! Glad […]
A Look at Homeschooling Through the Eyes of My Grown Children
Homeschooling hindsight provides vision for the future. Take a look at homeschooling through the eyes of my grown children. It’s been said, “Hindsight is twenty-twenty.” Our perception comes into sharper view at the end of the journey rather than at any moment along the way. For most of my kids, it’s been years since they […]