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In this episode, we talk about our Faith lives, growing in faith and how we manage that with a young family.  We share the resources that have made our prayers lives more successful, our struggles and successes along the way.

 8:35 - How do you incorporate prayer and/or daily Mass in your homeschool?
12:22 - Build a foundation and build gradually
14:47 - Our personal prayer life is a model to our children
16:51 - More on daily Mass
18:01 - Praying with the Magnificat
20:21 - What is the best curriculum for teaching our Catholic faith?
26:19 - Book suggestions
34:03 - Favourite family prayers

https://purplehousepress.com

https://www.amazon.com/Saints-Boys-First-Little-Catholic/dp/1939094208/ref=sr_1_3?dchild=1&keywords=saints+for+boys&qid=1599413849&sr=8-3

https://www.ewtn.com/catholicism/devotions/litany-of-humility-245

https://catholicexchange.com/padlocked-lips-couldnt-keep-this-saint-from-prayer

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Rosary resource

https://www.catholic.com/tract/the-rosary

The Hidden Power of Kindness

Mary Fabyan Windeatt Books

Catholic Heritage Curricula

Book of Virtues

We Help Mommy

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In this episode we talk about how to deal with toddlers while you’re homeschooling.  It’s tricksy, right?  We chat about sibling relationships and some management and co-oping with other families.  And just a quick reminder…we love you guys, you know that, right?

5:48 - What do you do with the younger kids while teaching the older kids?
11:31 - Ideas for keeping toddler busy
19:21 - How to encourage sibling relationships and how to handle sibling rivalry
23:27 - Understanding your children's love languages
30:20 - How to encourage good relationships
34:15 - How can we make a co-op work?

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A day in the life

Plastic sleeves for your convenience:

Wikki Stix

Ideas for pre-readers

Kinetic sand

Five Love Languages

Five Love Languages of Children

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In this episode, we continue our discussion of curriculum options, focusing on Science, Art and Music.  Bonnie and Elizabeth talk about experiences with approaching these areas, and recommends resources.  We talk about World Book encyclopedia and capitalizing on learning using encyclopedia.  A boat load of science and art resources are in the show notes, as well as music resources. 

2:51 - Approaches for teaching Science 
17:48 - What set of Encyclopedias do you recommend? 
25:03 - How to incorporate Art in your homeschool
37:55 - Approaches to teaching Music

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SCIENCE

Young Scientist

Science Is…

World Book Encyclopedia

National Geographic

Farm Anatomy (one of the “anatomy series”

Aquarium of the Pacific, online program

CHC ~ Catholic Heritage Curricula

ART

Books by Sister Wendy Beckett

Art memory game

Spot the Difference Books

What makes a Leonardo a Leonardo?

Imax movie sample

Monuments Men movie

Virtual Sistine Chapel

Metropolitan Museum of Art

MUSIC

https://www.classicsforkids.com/music/instruments_orchestra.php

https://thecanadianhomeschooler.com/teach-your-kids-about-the-orchestra/

A wonderful listener provided me with the name of the music program I couldn't think of!
Classical Kids

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In this episode, Elizabeth and Bonnie welcome Bonnie’s daughter Lucy as a guest.  We discuss a variety of random things, including, but not limited to:  spelling, comparing dictation with copy work, spelling, tips and tricks for teaching a child who knows everything, teaching differences according to gender and working with kids when English isn’t your first language.  

3:41 - Copy work and Dictation 
10:00 - Skills acquired through dictation 
13:21 - Tips for teaching a child who "knows everything"
17:09 - How to foster humility in our children 
25:12 - Did you teach differently based on gender?
33:24 - Homeschooling in a bilingual/multi-languages family 
41:57 - Thoughts on sticker charts/stamps or prizes specifically for behaviour

We cover a lot in 45 minutes.  

IEW spelling talk

Dictation posts

https://www.bonnielandry.ca/blog-1/dictation-and-a-childlike-trust?rq=dictation

https://www.bonnielandry.ca/blog-1/teaching-children-to-read-without-curriculum?rq=spelling

Resources for dictation, grammar and punctuation

https://www.bonnielandry.ca/blog-1/dictation-for-newbies?rq=grammar%20and%20punctuation

BOYS

Gordon Neufeld resources

Judy Arnall resources

My Pinterest page for dictation

The Elements of Style

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In this episode, we interview our first guest, Phillip Campbell III, author and speaker.  He recently has written a history program geared at homeschoolers called The Story of Civilization.  A self professed history nerd, Phillip shares the nature of his program, and some of his other projects.  He talks about presenting history without being boring.  And he gets schooled on not saying “it sucks” on our podcast.

 3:41 -Teaching History as a story
5:14 -Textbook as a backbone / Study with a novel
6:30 -The Story of Civilization book structure
9:35 - Contemporary History
15:27 - Resources for parents
21:15 - Approaches to teaching The Story of Civilization
41:18 - History movies

Please note:  "RC books" were mentioned in the podcast, actual name of the organization is RC history, linked below.

Also, we discussed the sad fact that Homeschool Connections doesn't offer parents classes.  It's a lie.  Here's the info from their website:

WHO CAN TAKE HOMESCHOOLCONNECTIONS.COM COURSES?

Primarily, the courses are intended for middle and high school students. We have recently added grade school courses, designed to be taken alongside parents.

Also, we receive interest from adults who would like to audit our classes. Adults are welcomed to take HomeschoolConnections.com recorded, independent-learning courses through our Unlimited Access or Single Access programs. Adults are not allowed to participate in the live, interactive courses. "

And I will include the link for several of their recorded talks as well:
https://homeschoolconnectionsonline.com/free-homeschool-help-videos

The Story of Civilization 

Phillip’s website

RC history

Homeschool Connections

https://www.facebook.com/groups/Tanhomeschoolers

Reading Your Way Through History

Phillip Campbell, Author-Teacher (Facebook page)

“Sophia” series. (parent review recommended)

Mr. Campbell Explains (youtube channel)

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In this episode, Elizabeth and Bonnie discuss math options for homeschool families, pros and cons and what kind of program might suit your child or family.

Bonnie makes wine recommendations. 

They discuss some options for studying history and social studies.

We’ve linked the resources we’ve mentioned in the show and please note!  We are not affiliates, we do not make any kind of money on any of the resources we use.  We simply do not do that.  We recommend what we’ve used and loved.  

Books guide for choosing good literature for your family to read and discuss and developing a family library. 

They also discuss some tools for discerning good literature.

1:47 - How to choose resources for your school year
7:52 - Suggestions for Math curriculums
10:26 - Tip for teaching Math from a textbook
15:28 - Helping children avoid competition
20:53 - Avoid buying under pressure
 "Will this add to or detract from the quality of our family life?"
23:04 - Suggestions for teaching History
28:05 - How far do you take a rabbit trail before you circle back?
31:05 - How to choose historical fiction for teaching History 
37:13 - Ideas for growing your library
41:02 - Vocabulary and grammar

Math Resources

Saxon

Life of Fred

Chocolate Chip Math

Book for Chocolate Chip Math

Podcast episode on chocolate chip math

Teaching Textbooks

Key to….math books

Jacobs mathematics

Math U See

Commercial break, seriously, gotta try this wine:  Link Here

HISTORY RESOURCES

What is social studies

The Story of Civilization 

World Book 

Eyewitness Books

Great Search Books

https://www.thriftbooks.com/

History Colouring Books by Dover

What does it look like all day? (blog post on studying history without curriculum)

CHOOSING GOOD LITERATURE

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In this episode, Elizabeth and Bonnie discuss submitting a “learning plan” if it’s required in your area, particularly if socratic discussion, literature based, organic learning is what you are after!  Paralleling that idea is the fact that most of us want a “plan” - to feel like we know where we’re headed for the school year.  It keeps us on track, helps us set goals and define our year.  

It’s important, too, to have a record of what you do, for your own sake, but also as insurance if your approach to homeschooling is ever called into question.  But in order to develop a plan, and keep track of what your family does through the year, it needs to be SIMPLE! 

What is a learning plan, how do we create one?

How do I do this and not go crazy?

I don’t understand what they want of me, how do I figure out the “lawyer-speak”?

I don’t have to submit a learning plan, but I still want to create an outline for the year?

1:47 - When following a State/Provincial Learning Plan
2:59 - What is a Learning Plan?
6:07 - How do I prove that I've met the requirements?
8:33 - Sample #1 - Year Overview DuoTang (View on YouTube or Instagram)
13:03 - Importance of a plan/Sample of a School Year Outline
19:57 - Sample # 2 - Weekly Records
24:22 - How to create a portfolio from your personal records
27:06 - How to file school work
28:55 - How to decide what to cover in a year
32:27 - Do you think about more than one year at a time when planning?
35:06 - End of the year records

I developed this blog post to share the resources we talked about on the show:

planning your year when you have a socratic/organic/natural learning approach

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2:05 - How to find order when you have kids
6:42 - Family purpose statement
12:05 - Being clear about when we do things
13:29 - Walk with our children / Tidy the house with them
15:20 - How do you keep track of your homeschool stuff?
22:23 - A good day starts the night before
25:57 - How do you budget your time well?
30:58 - The tyranny of the urgent (see PDF)
33:18 - Why is order so important?
38:02 - Fifteen minutes declutter everyday

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Reading and Relationships

Art of Simple, family purpose statement

Decluttering

Life without clutter

Tyranny of the Urgent poster

Sterlite pencil boxes

It all started with the laundry

What it looks like all day

What clutter does to us

Sink Reflections

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1:16 - How do we turn discussion based study into productivity 
16:16 - How does that relate to marks/a report card?
23:14 - Perfecting the paragraph to help produce essays 
25:58 - How do you take what they've read and move to putting  on paper?
27:51 - How to branch out from the literature to experiences

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How to read a book so it becomes the curriculum

Blog posts

The big picture of reading aloud

Literature as social studies

The story book grows up

How to force kids to learn stuff you think they should know

Homeschooling high school (creating a transcript)

www.iew.com

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1:24 - What is Chocolate Chip Math?
4:42 - Tips for implementing Chocolate Chip Math
6:31 - How long do you spend on Math every day?
9:02 - What a lesson would look like
23:23 -When kids hate Math
29:10 - "Key to" Math books
31:49 - Workbooks or choc. chip math
35:04 - When a child is not grasping a concept
37:11 - How do you get started with choc. chip math?
38:34 - When to transition from choc. chip math to formal workbooks?

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PARAGRAPH WRITING WORKSHOP, homeschool masterclass
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Blank multiplication chart pdf

What to do when

Five minute education

Posts on chocolate chip math:

Taste Buds

Six year old writes math program, shocks mother with how six year olds really learn

A day in the life without programs or workbooks

https://www.khanacademy.org

Life of Fred

Key to (math series)

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