First grade

First grade is the first formal year of school, and you want it to go well. We’ll cover the groundwork on homeschooling 1st grade.

Open the floodgates to higher sums by learning how to teach addition with regrouping to your kids. They’ll have a blast with these activities!

Has your child hit a bump on the road to reading? Learn how to teach letter sounds to struggling students.

It’s not hard to teach opposites–it’s easy!  Read on to learn just how to teach opposites to kids.

When teaching math, you can’t take away subtraction!  Discover how to teach subtraction to kids in a way that will make it stick.

If you want to teach someone to read, you’ve definitely asked this question, “What are high frequency words?” Well, we’ve got the answer!

Knowing how to teach CVC words can mean the difference between students grasping the concept quickly or needing extra time. Here’s how!

Knowing how to teach informational writing to students in K-2 can make your language arts lessons a whole lot easier! These tips can help!

Skip counting is something we’ve all done, maybe without even realizing it. Think of the catchy chant, “2, 4, 6, 8, who do we appreciate?” and you’ve just skip counted by twos! What Is Skip Counting? In a nutshell, it’s basically counting up from a number other than the number 1 and then increasing by …

While we always look for free apps (who doesn’t?), there have been some great finds that have been well worth the few dollars of investment that we made. Since our kids range from first grade to seventh and we’ve been homeschooling now for eight years, we have made quite a list of apps that we …