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How I Teach Math for Gifted Homeschooler
My Secret Homeschool Math Instruction Disclosure: This post contains review products that I received for free in exchange for my honest review of the product and affiliate links please see my full disclosure for full details. I’m going to let you in on a little secret. I am not a math genius. Really! I’m not. In fact, I am not very good at math. My brain gets pretty befuddled when given a bunch of numbers and asked to make sense out of them. I knew early on that my son however is very good at math. I also knew that he would very quickly surpass my ability to teach him.…
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This Week… Homeschool Week Complete
Finally Settling into the 2013/14 Homeschool Year Disclosure: This post contains affiliate links. Thank you for supporting Great Peace Academy. For more information see my disclosure policy. This week was the first week we were able to settle in and complete an entire week of homeschool. It’s only October. We worked during September but those weeks were scattered. Our landing into the new school year was rough to say the least. But we have settled in now to a routine which I am pretty thankful for. Along with the iHomeschool Network team we did a short study of copyright. I explained to Jonathan that it’s copying and/or sharing printed or…
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Gifted Homeschool Must Haves
Must Have Item for the Mathematically Gifted Disclosure: This post may contain affiliate links. Please see my full disclosure for full details. Thank you for supporting Great Peace Academy. Today I’m joining with my friends at iHN to discuss what we feel are our homeschool must-haves and I decided to take this opportunity to make my first ever video blog. I’m sharing what I feel is a Must Have for mathematically and perhaps scientifically gifted and advanced learners. Tell me what you think. Do you feel that this is a Must Have item? My second gifted homeschool must have is a catalog from (ad) Prufrock Press. They carry…
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Teaching History to the Gifted Homeschooler
Homeschool Blogging with Bright Ideas PressDisclosure: This post contains affiliate links. Please visit my disclosure policy for full details. Thank you for your support of Great Peace Academy.Today I am posting over at Bright Ideas Press on their blog. I’m talking about how I teach history to my advanced learning son.You can see the post here: History for the Gifted Homeschooler.
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Focusing Energy in the Homeschool Student
Brain Breaks to Re-energize the Mind Disclosure:This post contains affiliate links which means I receive a small commission for purchases made to external sites. Please visit my disclosure policy for full details. Thank you for your support of Great Peace Academy.My friend Heather has just released this book. The Ultimate Guide to Brain Breaks that I am so excited to tell you about. You see I have one of those children who just simply can’t sit still. He moves and bounces and rocks and spins all the day long. I’m anxious to read this book so that perhaps I can find a better way for him to release his energy…
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Great Homeschool Conventions Continues to Encourage
GHC Offers a Free E-Book on Multiple Intelligences This Sponsored post brought to you by Great Homeschool Conventions, be sure to click the link below to download your copy of this free e-book. For More information about sponsored posts visit my disclosure page. In the Spring of 2012 I went to the Great Homeschool Convention in Cincinnati. It was my second year attending that convention and I was extremely excited to find that they had a gifted homeschooler track that year. It was the first time I had opportunity to sit at the feet of some excellent speakers regarding the topic of gifted and talented education. Since that time…
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Outsourcing, When a Child is Smarter than Mom
Finding Mentors or Online Classes This is brought to you by TakeLessons.com. Homeschoolers, that’s what we are! But, that does not mean that we have to do all of our schooling in the home or that mom has to be the only teacher in the child’s life. In fact sometimes the reality is there are areas of education where mom simply can’t meet the child’s educational needs. Don’t panic! You are not alone. Little Man is quite talented in so many areas. He loves strategy games like Chess. I knew I could teach him the basics, and I did, he learned the rules of how to move the pieces very…
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The Social Lives of Gifted Children
Help for Parents of Gifted Children What would you do if you found that your little one struggles to find their place in the world? This is one of those questions I find myself considering often. With a gifted mind comes unique behaviors and idiosyncrasies that often cause a child to stand out among society as “different.” You’ve seen it before, a group of children where one is isolated, left alone; and for whatever reason the larger group simply steers clear. I don’t think even they can explain why, just that there is something different about the child, and therefore they leave them alone. I’ve witnessed it time and again with…
