I’m super excited to announce my homeschool curriculum, currently in the works - “In His Garden: Faith-Based Learning”. I’ve always wanted to homeschool my children, as I was homeschooled, myself, when I was younger, and as I believe God calls us to use our talents to witness to others and further glorify His name, I want to use my experience in the creation of teacher resources to make a curriculum that other homeschoolers can use.

Keep reading to learn more about this curriculum, my plans for it, and to get August Week 1, Day 1 downloaded for FREE!

Teaching the alphabet, or the Word of God, doesn’t have to be difficult! In fact, the two shouldn’t be mutually exclusive. This freebie aims to teach both at the same time, with 6 sheets all about the letter “A”, where your child (or student) can have fun coloring or practice their tracing skills. Regardless of whether you homeschool, or if you teach in a Sunday school, or a private Christian school - this freebie will be super helpful to you and your students.

Keep reading to learn more about this freebie and how you can get instant access to it.

All good parents want their children to succeed in life. If your child has a solid literacy foundation from the get-go, it can not only help them in school, but all throughout adulthood. These literacy skills come through reading, of course; after all, how can you get better at something if you never practice it? The ability to read can get you far in life, so if you have a child and you want to help build their literacy skills from an early age, or to help build a love for reading, I have a few tips on what I did (and currently am doing) with my toddler, who, at the time of writing this, is almost 19 months old.

The Sunday Scaries… we’ve all been there, amirite?

I remember, in my first two years of teaching, I had the worst Sunday Scaries. I would be an anxious mess and it, overall, wasn’t a great day because I was too focused on Monday. On one hand, I knew I didn’t want to do much work because, y’know, boundaries, but on the other hand - I felt like I had to do some sort of work because I wasn’t super duper prepared. I was at an impasse and my Sunday suffered because of it. I eventually developed some strategies to help me through these feelings and my week started off on a much better foot.

Keep reading to learn more about some things I personally did to help.

It’s nearly impossible to run a classroom when your students hate each other. Between arguments, pettiness, and literal fights, there is no room for teaching. It’s important to make your classroom environment one that your students feel welcomed in - like they’re a part of something - where they can at the very least tolerate the people around them.

Classroom community is one of those things you aren’t exactly taught when you go to college to be a teacher; it’s more something you have to experience to understand. Read my tips to get a head start with building your classroom community - it will make a world of a difference in your room.