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We offer several options for all grades, depending on what your needs are. The Basic version of our curriculum kits contains math, language arts, and thinking skills. It’s the most economical choice a...

We offer several options for all grades, depending on what your needs are. The Basic version of our curriculum kits contains math, language arts, and thinking skills. It’s the most economical choice a...

If you have made it this far through home schooling, you have shown true tenacity. Easy or not, you will now begin to reap the rewards for all your labors. If you are new to home schooling, you've arr...

Today’s Q & A addresses our favorite assessments, courses, and questions to utilize in helping a student come up to speed on language arts. Hope: Someone wrote in and said, “We kind of dropped the ba...

Originally written in 1993, shortly after the addition of Pearl, Baby #5. Learning Styles Having a newborn has reminded us again of why we teach our children at home. Teaching your child does not beg...

Originally published in Timberdoodle’s 1990-1991 catalog. Don’t you just love toddlers? They are so enthusiastic, loving, curious, confident, and innocent. However, to a home-educating mom, they are ...

And Other Reasons to Use Workbooks With Your Little Guys When we talk about workbooks for the 5 and under crowd we almost always hear the same thing from certain friendly folks. They thoughtfully resp...

This is a video transcript. Scroll to the end to watch the video. Deb: Hope, what question are we looking at today? Hope: Well, the question we’re looking at today is one that probably every homesch...

One important aspect to help us be more effective in teaching our children is to understand their learning styles as well as our own. Why are learning styles important? If you know your children’s lea...

We currently have a houseful of little ones with four involved in "school time" each day. They range from one to five years old, so we definitely know the juggling act it can take to keep everyone occ...

It's a fair and common question: "How am I going to teach all my children at different levels at the same time?" Don't worry; it really is doable! First, have you seen the articles floating around ...

Do you want to combine grades to save some costs? Or are you striving for sanity while juggling multiple students? We have some tips for you in today’s video! (Scroll to the end of the transcript to...

I hate schoolwork. I love to learn, but I hate inapplicable learning. I’ll never forget the time Dan insisted on showing me some process involving trouble-shooting a computer program I had never used ...

Our Curriculum Kits Tiny Tots (ages 0-2) includes learning materials for babies and toddlers. Suggested learning areas at this age range include language arts, STEM, emotional intelligence, motor ski...

“My 7-year-old is still not reading at the level I keep thinking she needs to.” “My 14-year-old has been taught phonics but is having a very difficult time with applying the rules to spelling words a...

This question on Facebook yesterday got us thinking: "Timberdoodle: I read your catalog cover to cover when it comes, and I love your thoughtful reviews of homeschooling resources. I’m wondering, thou...

I need some help. I had purchased a few extras to add to our basics for our school year, thinking it would not be too overwhelming for my kids (or me). However, I’m starting to second guess myself. My...

9 Tips and Thoughts A GED Isn’t Worst Case! In our family, a GED defines graduation and not a diploma. I know that most people hear “I have a GED.” and think dropout, unwed mother, or possibly “did t...

Originally published in a 1992 Timberdoodle catalog. How do you teach your children and maintain the rest of your responsibilities? It is not as hard as some might think. First of all, we are very co...

Included in every Timberdoodle Curriculum Kit is a Timberdoodle Handbook, which provides the structure and framework of your school year. In a second we'll show you what's inside each of those, but fi...

Would you like to supplement your curriculum with a program that simultaneously improves your child’s visual perception, fine-motor skills, patience, problem solving, spatial perception, creativity, a...

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