OneLuckeyWife

How to you handle sick days or days you’re to busy to do school? Well here’s what we do. If I am sick we still do school. Plain and simple. I still do housework and care for my family so I feel I can still be teacher. If our daughter is sick we take off until she is better. When she is sick I don’t feel she can focus on the learning. Now onto missed days. Some days you may have a lot to do or you may just want/need to take the day off. I use Saturday and Sunday as contingency days. So we can miss up to 2 days of school a week. I don’t like doing this because I have the year planned out and want to finish everything on time. I know with homeschooling you can finish things whenever but planning the year is what I prefer.  Since I like sticking to the schedule I’ve made with Timberdoodle’s online scheduler we do make up sick/missed days. When the snow storm hit Texas we missed a week of school. So upon returning home I had to figure out how to complete those 5 days of school. We ...

As a self-proclaimed math enthusiast, I am always on a mission to help my daughter discover the same joy I find in numbers. While she is technically proficient at math, it hasn't quite reached "favorite subject" status for her—until we introduced  Jump 1 . This card game is a brilliant tool for children ranging from preschool through first grade, specifically those mastering number sequences. The objective is elegantly simple: you must play a card from your hand that is either one higher or one lower than the card currently atop the discard pile. The game offers two distinct modes of play: "Cool and Clever" and "Fast and Furious." We initiated our session with Cool and Clever , which is a turn-based, methodical version of the game. After splitting the deck and drawing a hand of five cards, players take their time identifying the correct numerical neighbors. This was an ideal starting point for my daughter; it allowed her the mental space to apply her c...