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…
I remember at the beginning of every school year in middle school and high school vowing to make that the year that I kept my binder and notes much more organized. That generally lasted about a month and by the time Christmas came my binder was a complete disorganized mess. Was I the only that…
Last week I shared our favorite kindergarten homeschool resources and today I wanted to share our favorite grade three resources. Because we view homeschooling as a lifestyle we don’t follow a purchased or pre-made curriculum but rather create a list of broad homeschool goals for the year and create our own “curriculum” (using the term…
A few weeks ago I asked over on Instagram what your preferred method for consuming content is and a number of your told me that you prefer YouTube. So, I thought I would try to appease the masses this week by sharing a video to go with this post. I have not been good with…
Today I want to share the second best way to teach your children geography.I think I know what you are thinking right now, why in the world would she tell us about the second best way to teach geography? What is the first?!So, let’s chat about the first and then we’ll get on to the second.In my opinion,…