Carrie Willard

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August 18, 2015 by Carrie

Our Homeschooling Schedule (and a lunch menu) 2015/16

I sat down today to create our daily and weekly homeschooling schedule. Since our homeschooling year begins September 1, it’s time to begin the Tetris game that is scheduling my day with several kids that still require “teaching” as opposed to merely “facilitating”. I am adding a new student this year, Ruby, who just turned […]

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June 19, 2015 by Carrie

Homeschool Inventory

Every summer I get this feeling of panic. It only subsides when I figure out what we’re doing for next year’s homeschool. That’s right. I can’t relax and enjoy the summer, the summer free of school, until I get the school stuff out of the way. I’m not an obsessive type person, but I know […]

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March 4, 2015 by Carrie

Homeschool: What’s Working Now

A couple of things that we’re loving in our homeschool right now: Morning notes I can’t take credit for this idea, as I read about it on Amongst Lovely Things, who wrote about how spiral notebooks simplify her homeschool. I call it “morning notes”. In a nutshell, I have a cheap spiral notebook for each […]

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October 27, 2014 by Carrie

Homeschooling the determined child

This is a post in a series of 31 Days of Minimalist Homeschooling. See the intro post with all the topics here.  A few days ago I introduced the idea of how a child’s personality type affects their learning. I shared some tips on homeschooling the fun-loving, active child and the sensitive child. Today let’s talk about […]

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October 21, 2014 by Carrie

Homeschooling the sensitive child

This is a post in a series of 31 Days of Minimalist Homeschooling. See the intro post with all the topics here.  Yesterday I introduced the idea of how a child’s personality type affects their learning. I shared some tips on homeschooling the fun-loving, active child. Today I want to talk about another type, the sensitive […]

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October 20, 2014 by Carrie

Learning and personality: homeschooling your fun-loving child

This is a post in a series of 31 Days of Minimalist Homeschooling. See the intro post with all the topics here.  I don’t talk so much about learning styles anymore. The topic is controversial. Some believe that learning styles don’t really exist, and that most people utilize all the “types”. People don’t fit neatly into […]

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October 18, 2014 by Carrie

Don’t sweat college

This is a post in a series of 31 Days of Minimalist Homeschooling. See the intro post with all the topics here.  Google auto-complete can tell you a lot. I just typed “college is” into the search field, and the four choices are: … a waste of time … the next bubble …. overrated … not […]

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October 15, 2014 by Carrie

Minimalist method of teaching kids to read

This is a post in a series of 31 Days of Minimalist Homeschooling. See the intro post with all the topics here.  Personally, I feel that we over-complicate the process of teaching a child how to read. In fact, I would argue that one learns how to read, regardless of being “taught”. Right now I’m reading […]

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October 14, 2014 by Carrie

Homeschooling is wearing you down

This is a post in a series of 31 Days of Minimalist Homeschooling. See the intro post with all the topics here.  I apologize for my lack of regularity in posting daily about homeschooling. I blame bed rest for making it very difficult to concentrate. I read another great post about homeschooling from Melissa, homeschooling mom […]

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October 12, 2014 by Carrie

Homeschooling through a crisis

This is a post in a series of 31 Days of Minimalist Homeschooling. See the intro post with all the topics here.  I read an excellent post the other day on SimpleHomeschool.net about homeschooling through a crisis.  Quite timely for me, since my family is definitely going through a difficult time right now, with a high-risk […]

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