Taking Care of Business Blog

Want a Math project that will tap into your child’s imagination and creativity? Then, “Taking Care of Business” is what you need! “Taking Care of Business” begins with you and your child taking a drive around the town and take note of businesses in the area. After the...

Little Ones: Teaching Them While Maintaining Your Sanity

Let’s talk about preschoolers! Kids at this age love a daily rhythm! They don’t need exact times, but having a sense of what is going to happen when provides so much reassurance for children! This can lend itself to a more peaceful environment for you, and helps...

Educational Benefits of Nature

Statistics regarding outside time for children are quite surprising. Kids today spend an average of 4 hours per week outside, and of those 4 hours only 4-7 minutes are spent on unstructured playtime. This is compared to the 7 hours per day kids are spending on...

Our Favorite Homeschool Things

As a homeschooling parent, whether new or old (basically any parent at all), I know one thing is for sure… you have an abundance of STUFF. Lots and LOTS of stuff. And somehow, with each new school year, just like a national holiday, you seem to crazily collect...

Want to Take a Stand Against Racism? Start at Home.

As parents, we dream BIG dreams for our children. We hope that they will grow to live the fullest, biggest, most beautiful lives that they can. We pray that these bright, brave, and kind children will grow to become bright, brave, and kind adults. And we want them to...

Word Games (Part 2)

Catch a Context Clue This game is fabulous for children to practice using context clues to figure out the meaning of a word! Children will read a sentence that has a word underlined. They will have to find the meaning of the underlined word by using the clues that are...