This photo is brought to you by the Council for Keeping It Real: Homeschool Division. {grin} When folks ask me how I do school at home with four kids, ages 1 through 8, my simple answer is that I ignore the inevitable messes made by the preschoolers. Oh, and I lock myself in my bedroom with soft music and a bubble bath. I’m kidding. So, here are some tips for making homeschooling work with multiple children (without scented soaps and Andrea Bocelli.) Always start with a clean room. Clean the schoolroom the night before. Assign organizational and filing tasks to older kids while setting younger ones up with activities. Make special activity sets and containers of educational goodies for the preschoolers, that come out specifically during school time. Work with one child while another is reading or writing independently. Let the little ones play at a shallow sink full of […]