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How to Defend Against Homeschooling Critics
Starting out homeschooling, or you've been homeschooling for years chances but you've been met with homeschooling critics.
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Discover the Simple Ways to Transform Homeschooling Spaces That Inspire
Discover how you can make the most out of homeschool spaces that work the best for your own family lifestyle.
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Educational Video Channel the Family Will Absolutely Love
An educational video channel for the whole family, CuriosityStream, documentaries, lectures and performances, something for everyone.
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31 Music Unit Studies and More Resources to Teach in Homeschool
Sometimes when teaching music in homeschool you don’t really have time to dive in to a complete 32 week lesson series. Instead, perhaps what will work best for your classroom is to study music in bite size chunks. Allowing your children to learn about great artists, classical composers or music theory a little at a time can help them to retain more of what they are learning. This post contains affiliate advertisement links. Utilizing unit studies, lapbooks or notebooking pages can do exactly that. Allow you an opportunity to teach music in homeschool without fully committing to a 32 week lesson.
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5 Solutions for a Bad Curriculum Problem
What’s a homeschooling mom to do when you’ve got a curriculum problem? If you are like me, you are a homeschooling mom who is working hard to ensure you are providing your kids with the best possible homeschool curriculum and materials. I’m sure you are doing your research, talking to friends, reading expert advice, perusing the aisles at conventions and reading blog reviews. Doing all you can within your power to be sure that when you make the decision to spend your limited budget on a homeschooling item that it’s going to be the one that will work. What will be even better is if that material solves an existing problem. This post…
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Gifted Homeschooling and the Need for More
One thing that is obvious from even the earliest of ages is that a child who has a gifted mind has an intense need for more. By more, I mean more of everything. A gifted child needs more opportunity, more information, more understanding, more encouragement. They have more emotions, more intensity, more cognition. They exhibit more knowledge,more understanding, more intensity, more anxiety, more excitement, more sensitivity, and often more energy. They simply want, need, and are more. Be sure to see my series on Gifted Homeschooling This post contains affiliate ad links to 3rd party sites. Gifted Homeschooling when Your Child Needs More I want to break…
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Middle School Selections for Homeschooling 8th Grade
I can’t believe my son is turning 13 this week! This summer I purposed to sit down and make some tough decisions about moving forward with homeschool. With homeschooling 8th grade year upon us and realizing that he already has a couple of high school credits under his educational belt, (math), I know that decisions made now will be foundational to where he is in 2 or 3 years and whether he will be ready to tackle some tougher college leveled credits. So with that, I’ve struggled to make decisions about his curriculum. But, I’ve finally settled on this list and I feel pretty good about it. Disclosure: This post contains…
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10 Must Have Homeschooling Books for Mom and Dad
Homeschooling, as a homeschool mom who started out scared to death that I’d mess up my boy and has grown into a mom who after 8 years is ever-growing in the work, knowledge and joy of homeschooling I know that all along the way there are both challenges and rewards. Whatever part of the path you find yourself on, you can rest assured that someone, somewhere has walked ahead of you and left a bit of knowledge behind to help you get ahead. Homeschooling today is a lot different from when I started out. It seems that there are more and more curriculum choices and resources being developed every day.…
