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Preschool

Preschool Pond Play

May 4, 2020 Leave a Comment

One thing I love about giving my kids lots of time to play is that they come up with the most fun imaginative play scenes! May's Idea Nest nature study topic is ponds, but I only had to read one of the featured books before they started creating a pond in our backyard. It didn't involve a flood or an excess of water, thankfully. Although I had planned to offer different materials for pond Read More

Home Atmosphere

Handicrafts for the Spring and Summer with Rooted Childhood

June 5, 2019 Leave a Comment

This question has been asked at least a dozen times in my local community Facebook group: What am I supposed to do with my kids all summer long? With school coming to a close for the summer, traditional schooling families suddenly have lots of time to fill. This is not often a problem for homeschoolers, who can fill all that time and still feel like it wasn't enough. But, as we've phased out Read More

Habits

Making Family Habits Meetings A Habit

February 26, 2019 Comments : 4

If you want to make habit training a habit, then family meetings are really helpful. But, these family meetings should focus on habits, and not just the typical “state of the family” meetings that many people hold. According to  The Center for Parenting Education, a non-profit organization, holding regular family meetings supports family bonding, helps children develop higher Read More

Habits, Home Atmosphere

Making Tracks in the Snow, or, Habit Training

February 8, 2019 Leave a Comment

If you've been hanging around with My Little Robins for awhile, you may have heard me make this analogy before. And, if you were a fourth grader in my class several years ago, you heard this analogy, too, that I made up to help you understand synaptic pruning and other concepts of habit training. I think this analogy is helpful, and I wanted to flesh out the similarities between habit training and Read More

Preschool

Froebel’s Alphabet Sticks: ABC’s Outdoors

February 4, 2019 Comment : 1

Ever since writing my post about Charlotte Mason and kindergarten, I've been trying to get more familiar with Froebel's ideas. Friedrich Froebel lived in the late 18th century and early 19th century, and his principles on early education deemed him the affectionate title "the father of the Kindergarten." Unfortunately, Froebel did not have an outstanding way with words, as pointed out in an Read More

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