Cait Curley

The Very Best Games For Kindergarten and First Grade

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As you begin learning with your Kindergarten and First Grade child, using games in your homeschool can make a big difference. I have seen so many awesome benefits during the kindergarten and first-grade years with my daughter. Games teach important skills like sharing, taking turns, and how to be a good sport. (Plus if you…

Shark Week in Your Homeschool

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Shark Week is on the horizon and it made me think of this Shark Week in Your Homeschool article from the MLP archives. I thought it might be fun to give a little update because those littles you will see in the original article (keep reading!) are now 13, 11.5, and almost 10 and they…

The Best Way To Manage Homeschool Burnout

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Are you battling burnout? Are your kids complaining of boredom? Feeling overwhelmed by all those daily homeschool must-dos? Does your homeschool routine feel stuck? Do you long for a happier, more connected homeschool? Looking for a way to preserve the joy of learning for your children and teens? Do you have a vision of how…

How to Encourage Love of Nonfiction In Your Homeschool

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How to Encourage Love of Nonfiction In Your Homeschool I receive oodles of book-related questions and a very common one is, “How do you get your children to read nonfiction?” It’s a great question, really. Much of what we read to children early on is fiction. Bedtime stories, fairy tales, and lullabies are all composed of…

10 affordable gameschool resources your family will love!

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Let’s chat about affordable gameschool resources, shall we? There is a common misconception among homeschool families when it comes to gameschooling. Many homeschoolers believe that you must have a huge game collection to be a gameschooler, but this is simply not true! You do not need all the games to be a gameschooler, and gameschooling…

3 Stupid-Simple Summer Sanity Savers

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Today, I am sharing 3 stupid-simple summer sanity savers. These ridiculously simple hacks are helping me muddle through preparing for summer (even though I feel like we barely got the school year started…). I almost didn’t write this post because, as I said, they are stupid-simple, but if they help one homeschool parent, I’ll be…

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