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Disclaimer~ I received a COMPLIMENTARY copy of this product through the HOMESCHOOL REVIEW CREW in exchange for my honest review. I was not required to write a positive review nor was I compensated in any other way. Good morning, friends! How do you start your day? Growing up, I remember my dad reading the paper and watching the morning news before heading off to work. Sadly, this is a habit I didn't pick up. I tried watching the news when the kids were little but often found the material not appropriate or not real news. I wanted to know what was...

With schools closed for in-person learning and many children being educated at home, parents are scrambling for quality alternatives that work in a home environment. One of our Ask a Tech Teacher contributors has some ideas you may not have thought of: How to Make Remote Learning Work For Your Children Many parents are choosing to opt-out of traditional schooling, but the question of how to create a well-rounded curriculum or who to hire for this task is often the barrier that prevents at-home learning. In this article, we’ll help you make a decision by presenting popular remote learning options...

Keeping up with my monthly series in 2020 as a slow farewell to AoS, today I’m sharing my final letter to myself in 2010, ten years ago. Though these are to addressed to me, my hope is that you find a just-right smidge of truth, beauty, and goodness. Perhaps this exercise will inspire you to write your own letters to yourself, ten years younger.Dear Me in 2010,I don’t quite know how to begin this or what to say. It’s my final letter to you (at least published here on AoS). When I was you, I think part of me thought...

This thing happened today. Dare I say, a magical thing. Let us, first, remember that I am a mother of four children. Not a ton. But plenty to keep up with. I often call myself a “reluctant homeschooler”, like many other women out there who have found themselves in such a situation as myself. We're on year five of homeschooling so it's not like we're “new to this”. Five years ago my husband left his job as a school teacher at a private Christian school to pursue our farm and work here on the blog full time. That was the...

148: Google’s Free Applied Digital Skills Lessons I first learned about Google’s Free Applied Digital Skills lessons from Coach Victor Hicks in an interview he did on the 10 Minute Teacher podcast. Listen to it to hear he how has used these lessons with students. You can find all the lessons here (currently 160 of them!) You can filter the list of lessons by age, topic, and tool The results of a search can be sorted by popular, recent, duration, alphabetical You can either set it up as a teacher with a classroom (or multiple classrooms) and assign your children...