Our Homeschool History

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Have you ever wondered what it was like to be a homeschool “pioneer” nearly forty years ago? Have you ever scratched your head and marveled at how someone could homeschool for three or more decades? Do you ever wish you had an older mama to tell you all the things she did right, wrong, or in between? Then look no more! You have found all of that in Donna Reish’s (aka language arts lady’s) “Our Homeschool History.” A chronological look in ten-minute, bite-sized audios (and videos at YouTube/Instagram) of what our family learned and did during our thirty-two years of homeschooling and home growing our seven children. https://www.languageartsladyblog.com/ourhomeschoolhistory

Episodes

Wednesday Dec 14, 2022

#2: Indiana Homeschool Laws 38 Years Ago!

Wednesday Dec 14, 2022

Welcome to Episode #2 of Our Homeschool History. I don't talk much about politics---ever! But our beginning to homeschooling was very politically and socially-driven (complete with home visits, principal meetings, and much more!). So this episode is about our first year with legal action, Dr. Raymond Moore's visit, fear, and a little politics.

Here is the scoop of today's episode (my only political episode ever--I promise!):

The first dozen families homeschooling in our little town
The first Indiana Homeschool Convention
Home visits, social workers, principal conferences, and more -Spending the day with Dr. Raymond Moore, the founder of Christian
Homeschooling during his deposition for a Union City family
Last family standing?
Umbrella teacher for Ohio families in our area
Lisa's tailor-made curriculum through Home Grown Kids
How much I ADORE homeschooling
Much more!

I have so much to share with you about our thirty-two years of homeschooling!

I want so many great things for you and your students!

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Friday Nov 25, 2022

#1: Introducing Our Homeschool History

Friday Nov 25, 2022

Welcome to the first episode of a broadcast that will span a nearly-four-decade period of homeschooling!

In today’s episode, I go back thirty-eight years ago when we began homeschooling my younger sister (eighth grade) with a toddler in tow:

Why a 21 year old young mom who just graduated from college with a teaching degree was drawn to homeschooling
How we “fell” into homeschooling, which would become a way of life for us
What homeschooling was like in Indiana in the early 80’s—and how we attended the first state homeschool convention!
The difficulty in getting materials then (and “under the table” purchases from Christian schools)
The political climate during the early days
How we were able to bring my sister up multiple grade levels on one academic year
Much more!

This episode is a little longer than what I’ll typically do. So keep watching for these ten-minute episodes and be motivated, inspired, and taught through my ups and downs, successes and mistakes.

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Monday Jul 04, 2022

Sentences, Clauses, and Phrases Part II of II - HIT

Monday Jul 04, 2022

Welcome to HIT—How I Teach….In this episode, I explain my methods for teaching phrases, subject verb agreement, prepositions, and more!

Quick Review of Part I of This Two Part Series (#51):

CAVES—Capital, All makes sense, Verb, End mark, Subject; how to teach students to
recognize a sentence with that acronym (see my CAVES posters and reference ring cards
here! (https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Sentence-Building-Posters-and-Reference-Rings-Grammar-Posters-6978892)
How to help students memorize MANY subordinators
The value of using check sentences and mnemonics and clues!
Using weekly Think Fast Grammar Quizzes from 3rd grade on to memorize parts of
speech (Beginner and Advanced)

On to this week’s content:

Differences between phrases and clauses
Reasons for learning prepositions
How to teach where a prepositional phrase begins and where it ends
How to teach students more than one hundred prepositions (Hint: Use one
of these packets from my TPT store— Bugs on a Log, Beauty and Beast
Preposition Packet, or Preposition Packet)
Writing with prepositional phrases
Isolating prepositional phrases to locate and match subject/verb
Punctuating sentences with prepositional phrase openers
Much more!

It’s all here in this week’s HIT––where each week, I bring you tips, tricks, and techniques for teaching writing, language arts, grammar, and more (to grades two through twelve) drawing upon my 100+ curriculum books totaling over 50,000 pages.

Note: This lesson came from The Write Right Quick Kit, an upper level, teacher, parent downloadable book!

Find everything you need here!

Weekly broadcast episodes with Teacher's Notebook downloads (and links to listen or watch!) at the Language Arts Lady blog: https://languageartsladyblog.com/howiteach

Master (continually updated) Teacher's Notebook downloadable booklet:https://languageartsladyblog.com/teachersnotebook

Free writing books and videos of me teaching your students for you for a couple of weeks! https://languageartsladyblog.com/5writingfreebies

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Tuesday Jun 07, 2022

Sentences, Clauses, and Phrases - How I Teach

Tuesday Jun 07, 2022

Welcome to HIT---How I Teach....In this episode, I explain my methods for teaching sentences and clauses (phrases will be in episode #52).

Here are some of the highlights of this episode:

CAVES—Capital, All makes sense, Verb, End mark, Subject; how to teach students to recognize a sentence with that acronym (see my CAVES posters and reference ring cards here!) https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Sentence-Building-Posters-and-Reference-Rings-Grammar-Posters-6978892
Independent clause vs. Dependent clause
Sentence is independent
Subordinate clause is dependent
How to teach students to recognize when they have written a subordinate clause vs. when they have written a sentence
What are subordinators
Uses for subordinators
How to help students memorize MANY subordinators
The value of using check sentences and mnemonics and clues!
How to teach the creation of complex sentences using subordinate clauses and real sentences joined legally!
Much more!

It’s all here in this week’s HIT---where each week, I bring you tips, tricks, and techniques for teaching writing, language arts, grammar, and more (to grades two through twelve) drawing upon my 100+ curriculum books totaling over 50,000 pages.

Note: This lesson came from The Write Right Quick Kit, an upper level, teacher, parent downloadable book!

Find everything you need here!

Weekly broadcast episodes with Teacher's Notebook downloads (and links to listen or watch!) at the Language Arts Lady blog: https://languageartsladyblog.com/howiteach

Master (continually updated) Teacher's Notebook downloadable booklet:https://languageartsladyblog.com/teachersnotebook

Free writing books and videos of me teaching your students for you for a couple of weeks! https://languageartsladyblog.com/5writingfreebies

All of my digital books: https://languageartsladystore.com

How I Teach YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC20OP_HNTUm8eBMNgMh06sQ

How I Teach Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/how-i-teach/id1552986393

Sunday May 08, 2022

Writing Paragraphs From a Characteristics List (Elementary Level)- How I Teach

Sunday May 08, 2022

Welcome to HIT---How I Teach....In this episode, I talk about the littles. The second and third graders who aren’t quite through all of their phonics lessons yet (in many cases). The ones who would love to write if someone would take them by the hand and help them.

Tuesday Apr 19, 2022

Paragraph Break, Paragraph Theory, Paragraph Fun! - How I Teach

Tuesday Apr 19, 2022

Welcome to HIT---How I Teach....In this episode, I explain my methods for teaching paragraph breaks and give a lot of my “paragraph theory” and “pre-writing theory.” Paragraph breaks is often a difficult concept for students. And teaching paragraph breaks is also difficult.

Tuesday Apr 19, 2022

How I Teach...Five Paragraph Essays/Almost Reports for Junior High

Tuesday Apr 19, 2022

Welcome to HIT---How I Teach....In this episode, I continue with more essay teaching for middle school/junior high—but with a “research slat” that helps this age group move from essay writing to report writing. And… you can use the Teacher's Notebook over and over again to teach any three paragraph body (optional opening and closing paragraphs) that are three aspects of one thing!

Sunday Mar 13, 2022

: “Five Paragraph ‘Fun’ Essays for Middle Schoolers” (Including Opening and Closing Paragraph Instruction!) - How I Teach

Sunday Mar 13, 2022

Welcome to HIT---How I Teach....In this episode, I teach a five-paragraph essay—a super-duper fun writing project for students in fourth through eighth grades (with tweaks for going lower or higher in grades for this assignment!). The reason I say it is super-duper fun is because my students light up when they get to write these fun five paragraph types of projects. They are fun essays that lean into research just enough to get students gathering info to make their essays sing!

Sunday Feb 27, 2022

Teaching Prepositions to Elementary Students (“Bugs on a Log”) - How I Teach

Sunday Feb 27, 2022

Welcome to HIT---How I Teach....In this episode, I am (once again!) excited to teach you how I teach! I’m especially excited because this episode involves teaching elementary students. Yay for the littles!

Monday Feb 14, 2022

Outlining and Writing the Q and A Essay (Middle School)- How I Teach

Monday Feb 14, 2022

Welcome to HIT---How I Teach....In this episode, we turn our attention to another mechanism to help students learn to write informational paragraphs. Writing informational paragraphs in which students get information from a source, outline from it, and write a paper in their own words based on that source’s content can be overwhelming. We teach students how to read, comprehend, and synthesize information by using various outlining approaches, mapping, brainstorming, etc.