Our homeschooling picks for this year (and how to instill a love of learning) – Hf #239

Finding Joy in Your Home

Jami Balmet

Religion & Spirituality, Homemaking, Living, Kids & Family, Christian, Mother, Healthy, Christianity, Joy, Homemaker, Wife

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🗓️ 12 September 2019

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Our big aim and goal this year with homeschooling is instilling a love of learning in our kids. That's a tall order but also a fun goal to work towards. In this episode I am going to share our homeschooling picks and curriculum for this year and how we are trying to instill that love of learning. We will discuss fun ideas for this regardless of how you school your kids. Come listen in! Listen to the Podcast: Don’t forget to subscribe to the podcast in iTunes. Right click here and save-as to download this episode to your computer. Links & Resources: Simply Charlotte Mason: To learn more about Charlotte Mason style homeschooling Listen to the previous episode: A Homeschooling Q&A The Good and the Beautiful Homeschool Curriculum - what we are using this year for math, language arts, handwriting, and science for 1st grade and we also got their PreK curriculum for the 4-year-olds. We also got a bunch of their reading books! Master Books - Another great curriculum we love. They have some amazing science resources especially and for more books to read Resources for learning more about morning basket time: Your Morning Basket Podcast with Pam Barnhill - an entire podcast dedicated to this topic! How We Homeschool - Morning Time - by Read-Aloud Revival Simple Morning Time Plans - by Read-Aloud Revival Where to find living books: The Good and the Beautiful Library - they republish out of print books Master Books - Great source of science books & devotionals Sonlight Readers - we love buying the package of books for each grade level. We will likely purchase Core B books for the spring when we finish up all core A books. Read Aloud Revival - Has TONS of book lists, recommendations, and more!

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0:00.0	This is The Homemaking Foundation's podcast with Jamie Balmay, episode number 239.
0:06.1	Welcome to the Homemaking Foundation's podcast, where we give you the tools, inspiration, and
0:11.6	encouragement you need to craft a gospel-centered home.
0:14.6	And now your host from youngwifesguide.com, Jamie Belmay.
0:19.9	Hey, ladies, welcome back to the podcast. Today we have another homeschooling
0:24.6	topic that we're going to be talking about. And we just had a homeschool episode, two episodes
0:29.1	ago. I don't usually focus this much on homeschooling because that's not the main or big topic
0:34.6	here within this ministry. But we've had so many curious people and
0:40.3	questions that I am doing this follow-up episode to share our curriculum for this year,
0:44.3	what we're using. And also a part of this episode is going to be kind of just talking about
0:49.8	how to instill a love of learning in your kids. And so this is really something that whether you homeschool or not, if you have kids, these
0:58.3	are some really good ideas of things that we can be doing with our kids after school
1:03.2	on weekends for just instilling that love of learning no matter what.
1:06.9	So if your kids are in public school or private school or a hybrid school or however you choose to
1:12.1	homeschool your, I mean, however you choose to school your kids, whether that's homeschool or not,
1:17.3	I think there's just going to be some really good suggestions in here, how to find really good books
1:21.6	to read aloud with your kids. This is all stuff that you can do. Even, you know, if your kids
1:25.1	aren't even in school yet, this is going to be some really good things and some suggestions to do as well. So yes, there's going to be some homeschool
1:33.1	curriculum, but also hopefully some inspiration. And then in a little while, we'll hear from the
1:38.5	sponsors for today's episode. We have vistaprint.com and care of. So we'll get to those soon. But the first thing I kind of just
1:47.5	want to start out with is that our aim, we do homeschool. But in the in the past episode,
1:54.1	the homeschooling Q&A, I said, I do not think that homeschooling is the only answer for
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