Are you stuck when it comes to lesson planning? Let's chat about the struggles parents have when planning their homeschool lesson plans. Every homeschool parent I have supported has mentioned to me that they just feel stuck and overwhelmed when it comes to planning their child's weekly lessons. I can totally understand the frustration! After all, I was a classroom teacher for a VERY long time and sometimes it almost felt paralyzing to sit down and do long term plans, and sometimes just doing...

Why do children struggle with their writing? This is an age-old question many educators like myself have been facing for a long time. Parents want answers and educators work hard to give them the answers. But, writing takes a LOT of effort. When we ask our children to write there is a lot going on. 👉🏻They need to come up with their idea and store it in their head. This involves their working memory. When kids are struggling with any task due to a learning problem such as Dyslexia, this will...

Let's Get the Inside Scoop For many years, American school systems have been drifting further and further away from phonemic awareness and phonics in grade schools. There has been a BIG shift toward whole language learning and less of an emphasis on HOW kids learn to read. The thinking was that the more kids are exposed to reading, the more they will learn about reading. There is some merit to this. Having a text-rich environment, reading to your children, and sharing your love of reading...