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Live life with your Kids! · 1d ago

Language Arts as you Go

I have found that there are two aspects to our language arts programme Teaching basic skills of reading, writing, viewing, listening and speaking Using those skills and developing them further I use a variety of resources to teach these basic skills – especially reading and writing, and then I have

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Live life with your Kids! · 2d ago

50 Days to Go….

The big news for our family this year is that we are going on an overseas trip. In 50 days… we head off to Turkey, Italy and Switzerland. This family adventure has been the thread through all our studies so far this year as we prepare for travel and for all that we want to [...]

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Live life with your Kids! · 3d ago

Real Character Lessons

Character is the quality of the response we have to people and circumstances. In Do Hard Things – Brett and Alex Harris talk about three things that they see as central to their message (indeed, they are central to any project or task we set out to achieve): Character Competency Character We see

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Live life with your Kids! · 5d ago

Getting over being Bored

I have written many times before about the goal we have for our afternoons to be productive. I am, once again, at a place where we are intentionally working on this aspect of our days. Over the years our children have needed help in different ways to help them use their time wisely. One thing [.

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Live life with your Kids! · 2W ago

As my daughter learns – So do I

Naomi is playing netball this term – she loves it. This year she is one of the team captains. She asked me, “What does a captain do?” My answers (off the top of my head) Be an encourager Pull the team together, build team identity Set the example of good sportsmanship Help the Coach I [...]

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Live life with your Kids! · 2W ago

Celebrating Birthdays

Our boys have birthday’s very close to each other. No sooner are you over celebrating one, then you are celebrating the next one. It catches me by surprise every year!! We have just celebrated both Daniel and Joshua’s birthdays so I thought it a good topic to blog about. We have created tradit

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Live life with your Kids! · 2W ago

A Photo Walk: Our Farm

Every couple of weeks we spend a little time thinking about how we can improve our photography. My preference would be to get out and about, to visit various beauty spots around our town but this last Friday so much else was happening we just didn’t have time. So we decided to take a farm [...]

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Live life with your Kids! · 3W ago

Connect Character Lessons to your Activities

Last week our local homeschool co-op had the opportunity to work with Clinton (or TinTin as the kids call him) learning and practicing circus tricks. Catching a flying diablo, spinning plates on a stick, juggling, twirling sticks, walking on stilts and one girl had a go at a unicycle. Lots of fun.

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Live life with your Kids! · 3W ago

You are not Listening!

I had to say to one of my children this week, “Stop! You are not listening!” Their response to me was, “I am listening!” At this point we had a quick reminder lesson that listening isn’t just hearing the words but hearing them so well that you are able to act upon them. We tend [...]

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Live life with your Kids! · 3W ago

From the Archives

Looking back through my archives I found these few posts to highlight this month. Learning from People with Passion Do Dads Babysit? Let your Gentleness be Evident to All Filed under: Uncategorized

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