Advent idea # 5 (25 days of reading)

25 days of reading! I love this idea–I read about how a mom had carefully wrapped 25 books and each night she read one to her child at night.  Then when her second baby came along she carefully wrapped 50 books and read each child a book at night (I thought this was crazy but…

Kids + Reading=Easy!

I’m so excited!  Today I discovered this awesome online reading resource. Lit2Go supports Grades K-12 with an extensive collection of free audio books to help us present literature to our kids.  Each book is given a reading level based on the Flesch-Kincaid Grade Level Index.  This index is explained on the site but it is basically…

The Classroom @ Joyful Mom

Welcome to The Classroom of Joyful Mom. The Classroom is a space for me to write about: homeschool related topics “away” school related topics how kids learn differently and how I approach teaching them technology based learning–apps, readers, online programs what works and what doesn’t for me! and tons of projects that I do with…