Favorite Geography curriculum: Beautiful Feet
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Favorite Geography curriculum: Beautiful Feet

I don’t post tons of curriculum reviews. I guess it’s primarily because there is already saturation online to choose from. Possibly it’s also because, like most long term homeschoolers, we’ve found that 𝗻𝗲𝘄 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗳𝗹𝗮𝘀𝗵𝘆 𝗱𝗼𝗲𝘀𝗻’𝘁 𝗮𝗹𝘄𝗮𝘆𝘀 𝗰𝗼𝗻𝘃𝗲𝗿𝘁 𝗹𝗼𝗻𝗴 𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗺. I’m not opposed to new curriculum; quite the opposite. The surge of new curriculum these past two years is much needed and overdue, a blessing indeed. If I share curriculum here, it’s something we’ve used, often a minimum three times. It’s been vetted, satisfies my multi-sensory standard. It’s benefited our education journey, not merely just something to do. It’s part of a CM feast, spread before us. It’s taken us on living journeys.

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Sometimes narration needs help
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Sometimes narration needs help

FREEBIE Narration card printable: When I first asked our oldest son to give a narration on our first ever homeschool read aloud, he just stared at me. He was/is a voracious reader. I thought maybe I just needed to explain what narration was and we’d assuredly be set.

Still, blank stare.

I gave my narration about the reading, assuming it’d inspire him to expand and elaborate on the reading.

Eyes wide open, “mom, it was good.”

My newbie homeschooling mom fears welled up. I was convinced I was doing something wrong. And I was.

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pivot
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pivot

Last week, we were working on dictionary skills. It sounds oh so basic, but for a kiddo with auditory & visual processing issues, dictionary skills can take lengthy periods of intentional study to master.

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