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Toddlers and preschoolers need a lot of boundaries and guidance. They learn so much so quickly. Their emotions can cloud their thinking. Teaching our children how to handle their emotions and be self-disciplined can seem tricky. This collection of activities for encouraging positive behavior in preschoolers will help. I love when actual preschool teachers develop […] Click to read the post Activities for Encouraging Positive Behavior in Preschoolers on The Stay-at-Home-Mom Survival Guide.

173: Social Media Templates for Fun Assignments This episode delves into using social media templates for fun assignments for your children. Listen in for ideas on how to use fake social media templates in your homeschool. Here are the different places to find the templates mentioned in this episode: Classtools has a Fakebook template and a SMS (texting) template Shake Up Learning has a post that includes a fake Instagram template Ditch that Textbook – lots of templates including ones for Twitter, Snapchat and TikTok A Zoom template in Google slides Canva to make ‘real’ social media posts for Marketing...

March is National Craft Month, and it is the perfect time to incorporate more crafting projects into your hands-on homeschool. Aside from being a key component of many kinesthetic learning activities, crafting provides an outlet for creativity and stress relief in crafters of all ages, and creates an ideal situation for introducing and reinforcing fine motor, problem-solving, social, and organizational skills. Check out this Homeschool Living for some great tips and ideas for crafty homeschool activities, and most importantly the reasons for using crafts in hands-on learning for students of all ages and abilities. Mastering your Crafts Hands-on learning is...

We can learn about teaching grammar from Grammarly, I read this from a writing coach giving advice to high schoolers: Grammarly rules. Get your parents to pay for the pro version and put everything you write until the end of time through it before you submit. I do! What works about Grammarly is that it will ding you for the same mistakes over and over and over and over until you stop making them. A fascinating moment for me was putting another editor’s finished piece into Grammarly and seeing all sorts of error messages I’d never seen before. I hadn’t...

This post contains affiliate links - using affiliate links from HS Coffee Break helps fuel this blog. Nothing changes if nothing changes. ~Donna BarnesSometimes things need to change, which means people need to change. Or at least people need to change something they are thinking or doing. That can be uncomfortable. It's often even more uncomfortable if we have to talk about what needs to change. That sounds like confrontation, and few of us enjoy that. Bringing up a touchy subject and then even hinting that something must be done about it can be nerve-wracking for everyone.Here's the problem: If we...