In our post “Our 2nd Grade Reading Picks (Best Books for 2nd Graders to Read!)” we discussed the reading choices we are making for my daughter to read to us, and herself. This post will be an ongoing post as well, being added to as we discover new read alouds and audiobooks! But these are books I either read to the whole family, or that they listen to during quiet time. We keep record of the books that we listen to or read in goodreads, and I will just be adding those here!   Read Alouds- Books I have read to my kids- 2021   The Secret Garden- In fact, we…

This will be an ongoing post that I will add to each month as my daughter finishes more books! I will have 2 lists in this post. The first list will be what she has read by month, and then at the bottom of the post you will be able to see our recommended reads by author and/or series! 🙂   List of Books by Month: May 2021: **Aesop’s Fables: (Using the Story Correction guide in our 2nd grade LA curriculum) The Fox and the Crow The Lion and the Mouse The Fox and the Grapes The Ant and the Grasshopper The Wolf in Sheep’s Clothing The Boy Who Cried…

Homeschooling Year Round with Flexibility   I wanted to address a few questions I usually get when I mention that we school year round. First of all, we always have! It is just something that was natural for us, because I have curious kids- and I am a very academic, schedule, and learning oriented person. Second, it makes it sooooo easy to have flexibility in our homeschool, take trips when we want, and have break days when we need them!   You school year round? Does that mean you don’t take breaks? No!! We just don’t have to take breaks when everyone else is! We usually take a few weeks…

Welcome to our new series, all about Homeschool Portfolios! This is post #2 (and video #2! Scroll down to see that) Here is post #1: https://loveathomeeducation.com/2021/05/07/homeschool-portfolio-series-1-digital-portfolios/ Homeschool Portfolio Series #2: Physical Portfolios A physical portfolio. Why? Here are a few reasons that we love physical portfolios. If you need to turn in a portfolio to your district. This is a great way to show them physical copies of some work! If you would like to keep SOME but not ALL of your kids’ work, drawings (let’s be honest, there are a lot of those right??). If you are a kinesthetic family- and like to see AND feel the progress of…

Welcome to our new series, all about Homeschool Portfolios! This is post #1 (and video #1! Scroll down to see that) Here is post #2: Physical Portfolios   Homeschool Portfolio Series #1: Digital Portfolios A digital portfolio. Why? Here are a few reasons that we love digital portfolios. Space saving! You don’t have to keep all the work, drawings, art projects- You take pictures and videos and upload them! Saves so much space AND time, and it is a great way to submit your portfolio to the district or state if you have to do that. SIMPLE. Everyday we simply upload the pictures and videos we have taken at school…

We were introduced to Gameschooling through our Homeschool community on Instagram! And  it is something that feels second nature to us because my daughter LOVES games. We joke that her love language is playing games!   Two subjects that we “exclusively” use games for are: Spelling and Grammar   How we teach SPELLING with games: Our favorite game to use for 1st grade was BOGGLE JR. We intend to start using BOGGLE soon, but right now we are working on crossing off all the words in BOGGLE JR! (We are actually creating some extra cards to use in BOGGLE JR for 3 and 4 letter words.)   We would recommend…

I recently wrote about our Kindergarten and 2nd Grade Schedules for next year, and realized I haven’t written much about what my kids have done in this past year!   This was Will’s last year of Preschool, and so he focused mainly on the Alphabet and beginning numbers. This was Ellie’s 1st grade year, and she focused a lot on reading and writing!   Here are the materials we have used this past year. (Scroll down to see how we keep an online Homeschool Journal!)   PreK and 1st Grade Materials List:   English: 1st Grade Language Arts: Reading and Writing Comprehension Spelling and Vocabulary Textbook, K-12 (Used sparingly) Nature…