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Kids Teaching Kids

Little kids love to emulate their older siblings. It’s just a fact of nature that when a little person sees a big person do something, they want to do it too. They pick up on mannerisms and vocabulary words from their older siblings, they learn how to perform certain basic skills by watching and observing, and this natural tendency to copy-cat can come in handy in your homeschool. When two-year-old Timmy sees eight-year-old Jimmy reading, he’ll want to do it too. He’ll want to write his name, he’ll want to learn to count, and as he gets older, Jimmy will … Continue reading →

Teaching Your Toddler About Feelings

It’s amazing to me how quickly babies learn language. If I could learn a brand new language from scratch as quickly as a toddler, I would be speaking fluently in two years or less. The only thing keeping your baby from speaking more than she does is the fact that she has to learn how to use her tongue and lips to form those words as well. Babies pick up language all around them. Some of it they learn from interacting with their family. Some of it is taught. It’s easy to look at a picture book with your toddler … Continue reading →

The Early Years: Teaching Reading

I vacillate between unschooling and a desire to bring formal school elements into my daughter’s life. This week, she has really taken to the school side of things, to phonics, much to my delight. At the end of last week we actually spent several hours on our phonics book at her request. During that time, she sounded out her first word. Granted, that word was only two letters, but she did it by herself instead of having me coach her. To me, that shows that she is beginning to understand the process of sounding out phonetic words. Although I know … Continue reading →

Understanding Charlotte Mason Vocabulary Q-T

In previous posts, I and other homeschool bloggers here at families.com have discussed our experiences with charlotte mason curriculum. In my last post, I supplied Charlotte Mason Vocabulary for the letters A – B, and C-E , F-H and I-M. I will now discuss Q-T. Questions: A child needs to be able to form questions in his mind and not rely on reading guides. Tools like Cliff Notes prevent the student from really knowing how to read a book. Rights of the Child: According to a Charlotte Mason approach to education, children should be allowed certain rights which include being … Continue reading →

Understanding Charlotte Mason Vocabulary I-M

In previous posts, I and other homeschool bloggers here at families.com have discussed our experiences with charlotte mason curriculum. In my last post, I supplied Charlotte Mason Vocabulary for the letters A – B , C-E and F-H. In this installment I will discuss I-M. Ideas: The charlotte Mason philosophy is based on ideas. To quote Charlotte Mason, “Education is a life; that life is sustained on ideas; ideas are of spiritual origin, and that we get them chiefly as we convey them to one another. The duty of parents is to sustain a child’s inner life with ideas as … Continue reading →

More Vocabulary Instruction

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My previous article about vocabulary ended with giving parents and teacher ideas on which types of words should be taught to children. The first type was important words. Important words are words that are essential to helping children understand a passage of text. In addition to important words there are also other words that teachers and parents tune into when teaching vocabulary to children. Useful words: These are words that children are likely to come across often in other passages of text. Teachers and parents should look for words that are not secluded to one body of text. These are … Continue reading →

Teaching Vocabulary

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In several of my last articles I have focused on different aspects of reading. The topics have gone from phonics to comprehension to fluency and now to vocabulary. My latest article talked about the importance of increasing the vocabulary of your students. In this article I continue to discuss vocabulary. However I begin to examine the methods of teaching vocabulary to students. As most of you recall, the typical method of teaching vocabulary consisted of copying bold words and their definitions from a body of text or from the glossary of a book. These definitions were then to be memorized … Continue reading →

Vocabulary

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As a student I can remember the countless time that I spent copying the bold words from the textbook and writing their definition. We would then have a test to either fill in the blank with the correct word or match the words and the definitions. This practice was thought to be our vocabulary lesson for the week. Most teachers still incorporate vocabulary into their lessons today. Vocabulary is the words or terms that we must know in order to be able to communicate with others effectively. In general, researchers and educators will say that there are four types of … Continue reading →

Families.com Homeschooling Blog Week In Review

This has been a fun week for at the families.com homeschooling blog. I returned to families.com after a long absence and was welcomed back with open arms by Valorie Delp who will still guest blog for families.com as she has time. Meanwhile she is busy with the baby blog and food blog. I have wasted no time jumping back into my work as the homeschool blogger. Sunday 09 Mar 2008 Edventures Online by Valorie Delp This is one of the best kept secrets of the kid-friendly website world. It is a subscription service, but I have to say I think … Continue reading →

Vocabulary Word of the Day: Research

Research means to “inquire into”. It is a “systematic investigation to establish facts”, and a “search for knowledge”. (worldnet.princeton.edu) Research is a very important part of homeschooling for many reasons. To learn how to homeschool your child, you must research and discover the right approach for yourself. Likewise, to truly teach a child, you must also teach them to find information for themselves. As homeschoolers on a mission, we tend to forget to do our due diligence and jump to conclusions based on the reports of others. I especially am guilty of this error. When talking about the very recent … Continue reading →