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True North Homeschool Academy posts articles about curriculum, book and product reviews, homeschool tips and encouragement, as well as information about home education and learning styles here. Learn More About Our Online Classes & Clubs here.
Online Learning Balance
By Tammie Polk I see what's happening here. With everything that's going on, you want to maintain that sense of normalcy that you know and love. You know what your strong points are and what you need help with. The Internet is a wealth of knowledge, and although it...
Executive Functioning Skills
Strengthening Executive Functioning Executive functioning skills regulate, control, and manage one’s thoughts and actions. To put it succinctly, executive functioning skills are what manage the brain. You probably don’t even think about your own executive functioning...
Special Needs Resources
Special Needs Resource Listing Just in case you didn't know about the many resources available through True North Homeschool Academy that accommodate learners with special needs and equip and support parents of students with special needs, we thought we'd list them...
Red Fish Blue Fish-Restaurant Review
Red Fish, Blue Fish Even though we are in a time of social distancing, we are planning for our next grand adventures. As you dream and plan, I hope you would consider this amazing restaurant chain in Florida. Even its name is compelling! We recently returned from a...
Soft Skills
Soft Skills Soft Skills are those personal attributes that allow us to interact well with others, allowing us to have peaceful and healthy relationships. They are also known as power skills or personality traits. Soft skills are those skills that everyone seems to...
Happy Birthday ‘Rona-Style!
Happy Birthday 'Rona-Style! Pandemic, quarantine, birthday, and party.? Should any of those words even be used together in the same sentence? They were in my mind and haunting me from the time our state was shut down. How was I going to survive, let alone celebrate a...
Celebrate with Us!
Celebrate! Today I am super excited to be helping my friend Felice Gerwitz from Vintage Homeschool Moms celebrate her 400th Podcast Episode on Vintage Homeschool Moms!! Together several of us have come together to help her celebrate by giving away ONE $200 Amazon Gift...
Sunday’s Coming!
Life is Uncertain I originally wrote this ten years ago and wanted to share my testimony again at this uncertain time. Ten years ago, our house had burned, my 47-year-old sister had died unexpectedly, my oldest ended up in an E.R. several states away with Bird Flu,...
Online Learning: A Homeschool Primer
Online Learning The world of online learning is burgeoning, the options varied and choices better than ever before. And that was before Covid 19 hit the streets and forced public schoolers home! So many choices, so many opportunities. How does one choose? Not all...
Coping During a Crisis
Coping During a Crisis Coping during a crisis takes thought and intention, which might be in short supply when a crisis hits. Ten years ago, we had one of those years. You know the type; the tough, painful type. Maybe you can relate. One Thursday morning, as we were...