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Investigate homeschooling options and basics, from preschool and special education to creating a Christian curriculum. Whether you’re homeschool educated and wondering how to get into college or you’re a new parent struggling to choose a homeschooling philosophy, eHow has answers to your alternative education questions. Just embarking with your child on a homeschooling journey? Check out helpful How Tos on meeting education standards, planning lessons, buying supplies and scheduling your lesson plans.

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How to Start a Homeschool Blog

By AHermitt

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Starting a homeschool blog is a great way to share your homeschooling journey with other people. It allows other homeschoolers to know they are not alone and homeschoolers to share information with each other. If you want to start a ... more »

How to Start A Sunflower Race

By ***amylaine

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Summer time is a wonderful time to get kids excited about the environment. Having a Sunflower race with siblings, neighbor hood kids, grandkids, or just between you and your child is a great way to start the excitement... more »

How to Stop Friends and Family from Interrupting Homeschooling

By AHermitt

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You've decided on homeschooling and your friends and family have listened, argued and debated while you've held your ground. You will now need to prepare your friends and family for your homeschooling endeavor... more »

How to Teach A Child to Enjoy Creative Writing

By jpwhickson

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The biggest deterrent to creative writing is frequently encountering difficulty with spelling and grammar. The creativity is impacted if the writer must constantly look up words and check grammatical errors. Creative writing should be a great joy ... more »

How to Teach a Preschooler How to Use Scissors

By eHow Education Editor

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Preschoolers need time to use and practice with scissors before they can use them more fluidly. There are several activities that can be done to help develop the muscles in the hands. Some examples would be: playing with playdough, tearing old ... more »

How to Teach Christian Character Traits

By tamara chilver

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As our children’s primary mentors, we need to consistently display Christian character traits and surround our children with others who share our values. Harvard and Stanford Universities have reported that the reason a person gets hired for a ... more »

How to Teach Common and Proper Nouns to Young Home School Students

By ctmem

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Teaching the differences between common and proper nouns to a child can be difficult. Many Language Arts concepts are abstract and good teaching tools are hard to find. Learning the difference between common and proper nouns is important when ... more »

How to Teach Double Negatives to Young Home School Students

By ctmem

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Teaching double negatives to a child can be difficult. Many Language Arts concepts are abstract and good teaching tools are hard to find. Mastering double negatives is essential to sounding intelligent when you speak or write. This video can ... more »

How to Teach Fractions with an Apple Pie

By Bobbi Holmes

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What we learn by experience has a far greater impact than learning from a book. Tangible, three dimension learning experiences, which engage all of our senses, have the ability to fuse that information in our memory, while giving us a better ... more »

How to Teach Geology Using a Pet Rock

By wjackson

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You can easily teach younger children a bit about geology by letting them have a pet rock. Here's what to do... more »

How to Teach Impressionist Painting to Children

By Eva Ulian

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I’ve always said that the fundamental characteristic of an Impressionist Painter is lack of eye-sight. I believe the blurred effect of impressionist painting is not just an acquired effect, but an accident of birth since practically all those ... more »

How to teach kids geography

By Pixie1976

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Geography, if your child doesn't understand it, getting around is going to be a problem. Your child may get lost easily which could lead to potentially dangerous situations. In the long run, growing up without an understanding of geography does ... more »

How to Teach Letters by Making an Alphabet Collage with Your Preschool Child

By Laura Chapman

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This activity is a fun and easy way to teach your toddler about letters of the alphabet. One of the best ways to get children to learn is to make the topic relevant to them. In this activity, you will help your toddler pick out things starting ... more »

How to Teach Possessive Nouns to Young Home School Students

By ctmem

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Teaching the difference between possessive nouns and plural nouns to a child can be difficult. Many Language Arts concepts are abstract and good teaching tools are hard to find. Learning the difference between plural and possessive nouns is ... more »

How to Teach Pronouns for Young Home School Students

By ctmem

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Teaching pronouns to a child can be difficult. Many Language Arts concepts are abstract and good teaching tools are hard to find. This video can be used to teach pronouns to your young home school student or review pronouns for any student... more »

How to Teach Sentence Fragments to Young Home School Students

By ctmem

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Sentence fragments can easily sneak into student writing and ruin the meaning of a sentence, paragraph or essay. Avoiding sentence fragments is essential to sounding intelligent when you speak or write. This video can be used to teach how to ... more »

How to Teach Subjects Your Homeschooler Dislikes

By AHermitt

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Homeschooling is great because children get to learn in a more relaxed atmosphere, and also get a say in what they learn and where. Still, there will be subjects your homeschooler would rather not learn. For a homeschooling mom, this can create ... more »

How to Teach Test-Taking

By jpwhickson

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Tests don’t necessarily measure the knowledge that the student has but can be a measure of how well that they take a test. If you would like to help your child show the world his true knowledge, teaching him test-taking is imperative. You can aid ... more »

How to Teach to Your Child's Multiple Intelligences

By virtualibrarian

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When our children are tested for their intelligence, the testing usually focuses on just two areas--verbal and mathematical intelligence. These two areas, however, don't begin to give the real picture when it comes to determining what each child ... more »

How to Teach Your Child or Toddler with You Tube

By Limowreck

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It’s never too early to fall in love with learning. A collection of educational videos on You Tube will provide a fun and relaxing ‘classroom’ for children of any age. Give your toddler a head-start with new and classic alphabet and counting ... more »

How to Teach Your Child to Budget-Level 1

By familybuddy

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The best thing you can do for your child's future is to teach them how to budget at an early age so that they will take that into their adult years. Imagine your child financially free and independent when they enter adulthood. It can happen! ... more »

How to Teach Your Child To Love Reading

By oneloved

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Want to instill in your child a love for the written word? Here are practical ways to inspire your little book worm... more »

How to Teach Your Child to Read

By EasyWriter

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In a few simple steps, you can help your child learn to read. As a veteran first grade teacher, I've taught hundreds of children to read, written books on the subject, and developed an audio phonics program that's sold nationwide. What you might ... more »

How to Teach Your Preschool aged Child At Home

By Jenci4

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This article will help give you direction in your endeavor to give your child a head start in their education... more »

How to Teach Your Preschooler to Dial 911

By AutumnLeavz

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It is the most important number that anyone will ever learn. It is even more important that you teach your child early and teach them properly just in case there is an emergency. You never know when or if your child will need to be able to ... more »