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Homeschooling Where You’ve Gone Before
Hiking new trails is awesome. But hiking trails you’ve hiked before is awesome in a different way. We recently revisited a hike that we had done twice before, once 6 years ago, and once 4 years ago....
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Risk Taking 101 for Parents of Homeschoolers
Yes, that is my 9 year old in that picture. Yes, it is high and steep. Yes, I am brave (and she is, too.) Managed risk taking is a skill we value in our family. Since I took this picture, and...
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Reason to Homeschool #239
Reason #239: You don’t have to share the sledding hill. Share one of your favorite reasons to homeschool in the comments!
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Math Out Loud (the Easy Way)
For those of you who are familiar with Saxon Math, you know that each lesson involves lots of practice, both on new skills and review. This is both a wonderful thing — old skills are not forgotten as...
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Snacking and the Homeschool Family (How to Feed the Horde)
For those of you who, like me, are home with the kids all the time, you know that their appetites are bottomless. After breakfast, and second breakfast, and lunch, and afternoon snack, and dinner and...
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Awesome Ocean Science at Home (for kids)
In anticipation of a hoped-for vacation to the beach, I began a Unit Study about Oceans today with Lulu and Max. It has been about 7 years since I used this particular curriculum. Lulu was 2 on our...
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Ocean Science at the Beach
This post could be subtitled “Why we count beach vacations as school days.” One of the things I love about teaching my children at home is being able to recognize the real learning that comes about in...
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Quilting to teach Elementary History
For the younger kids, we are still using The Story of the World series as a basis for world history studies. We own both the book and the accompanying activity guide, and enjoy finding additional...
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Living Books for Homeschool Science: Dissections
One of the pressures we put on ourselves as homeschool parents is trying to avoid textbooks for learning. Whether you are of the Charlotte Mason group, the Thomas Jefferson education group, or an...
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Choosing your “Cup of Tea”— Freedom for Homeschoolers
I often say “it’s just not my cup of tea.” When I make this statement, I am asserting my right to choose for myself what I consider fun and useful in my life. So while a 20-mile training run is my...
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Last Day of School 2013
Last Thursday was our last day of “school.” I put it in quotation marks because we continue doing school during the summer, we just don’t call it school. During the summer, we do a math lesson or two...
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