Summer learning has always been a time where I can relax and change up our homeschool a bit. I’ve learned that summer is also a great time to try out new things to see what might work once we head back to school in the fall. My son and I sat down together last week…
You might think that finding creative ways to help my children learn is the most difficult part of homeschooling for me. It’s not. The hardest part about my decision to homeschool is dealing with doctors and therapists who don’t understand and disagree with it. My child ate kleenex in his therapy session last week. He…
Homeschooling a child with dysgraphia can be complicated, especially because so few resources exist to support a dysgraphic child. This behind the scenes look illustrates the reality of homeschooling a child with dysgraphia and includes resources to help. In all my years of public school, the only bad grade I ever received on a report…
Creating a homeschool high school transcript can be intimidating, but it doesn’t have to be. This is everything you need to get started, including a sample for your own records. One of the things I worried about most, in our early years of homeschooling, was how I would handle high school – especially high school…
Too often, my child is too anxious to learn anything at all. I am learning how to help. I have many memories of elementary and middle school. Good ones like singing in the choir, participating in history day, and my sweet third grade teacher calling me “love bug.” Like most of us, I also have…
One of my family’s favorite homeschool teachers has released a new book and it is a must-read for parents. TEACH: Creating Independently Responsible Learners by Dennis DiNoia is a refreshing look at education as a whole, and serves as a guide to empowering our children to discover and learn. I had the pleasure of meeting…
The constant anxiety, stress and battles surrounding simply going to school were significant factors in our decision to homeschool. This is what it’s like when your child is too anxious for school. When my now seventeen year old son was eight, he attended public school. Every single day of his second grade year began with…
The longer I homeschool, the more I see the relationship between my sons’ sensory issues and how they learn. This is my very best advice for homeschooling a child with sensory issues. It’s so easy, in the winter months and especially over the holidays, for me to lose sight of the fact that my youngest…
These 5th grade trivia questions and game ideas are perfect for learning and having fun. They also can help you prove that you are indeed smarter than a 5th grader! Trivia Game Questions For 5th Grade The following trivia questions make for a perfect afternoon with your 5th grader! Grade level appropriate, they serve as…
One of the most challenging aspects of interest led learning is figuring out how to keep track of all of it. Because our children are the ones guiding much of the learning, how do we keep records, design homeschool portfolios and create high school transcripts if we take an interest led approach to homeschooling? Over…
After graduating one homeschooler and beginning ninth grade this year with my second, I can honestly say that homeschooling high school is nothing like I thought it would be. While I worried about transcripts and algebra, what mattered most took me by surprise. It may surprise you as well. My oldest has been on his…
After crowdsourcing from homeschooling parents all around the world, we’ve created an ultimate guide to homeschooling with YouTube. This includes a master list of 72 YouTube channels perfect for homeschooling all ages. Why YouTube Is An Exceptional Resource For Learning YouTube has become an essential resource in our homeschool. Not only is it a free…
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