I kind of already spilled this in the post title but: we love homeschooling! I had actually decided to make this a post about the ten best things about homeschooling before I realized I could have made the list a lot longer. Oh well, these are the ten best reasons, not the only ten! (I did still manage…
I think the hardest part of homeschooling for me is knowing that my kids are missing some great learning opportunities because of my weaknesses. We are rocking all things literature and book-ish, but you know something that is all the rage these days that I am definitely not rocking? STEM. STEM stands for Science, Technology, Engineering…
I love homeschooling. I feel like I’ve really found my tribe in the last couple of years. Last week I posted a variation of this photo on Instagram: I thought it would be fun to see what others thought were signs of homeschooling and got quite the response. I made each answer into…
In the last few weeks we have been doing what I’ve dubbed as “relaxed notebooking”, I share more about the concept in my Homeschooling as a Lifestyle Workshop but in essence we have been picking topics each week to do mini unit studies on. This approach works really well with our relaxed, interest-led homeschool style. I thought…
You know how you never really know what you have until it’s gone? That’s kind of how imagination was for me. I just assumed every child had a great imagination but it wasn’t until we brought our son home that I realized that wasn’t how it worked. Imagination is incredibly important to me, not only…