Making homeschool decisions easy
Do you make plans for each school year? Have you found something that works for you? Maybe you are a planner like me but find you could use a little more flexibility in the plans you make. Any way you slice it, if you are a homeschooler and a planner then you will want to consider doing your homeschool planning…
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Whenever I ask my husband what should be a priority for our homeschool, he mentions logic, so the children study logic every year from about age 11 and on. Some years it’s a great learning experience, and some years it’s fun. When we study The Fallacy Detective by Nathaniel Bluedorn and Hans Bluedorn, it’s both. In fact, these Thirty-Six Lessons…
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It is not difficult to see the benefit of the great outdoors providing the perfect classroom to ignite student interest in sciences. After all, we are surrounded by the beauty of nature – the astounding colors and patterns in the evening sunset, the complexity of the spiral patterns of a pine cone, and the dynamic interactions between symbiotic species. Our own…
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It is no secret that historical fiction is a passion of mine. Not only do I enjoy reading historical fiction myself, but we incorporate a ton in our homeschool learning as well. Teaching History Through Literature with Beautiful Feet Books makes learning with historical fiction easy! Throughout our homeschooling years we have read many historical fiction books. I find that having a…
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Just because we home school doesn’t mean we have to do all of our learning AT home! Homeschool field trips are a great opportunity help kids learn more about the world around them and explore school subjects in more detail. Our experienced homeschool moms have planned and attended more field trips that we can even count! Join us as we…
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We picked up this really cool dichotomous key at a homeschool class we attended at our local nature center. It is a simple to use tree finder guide for identifying trees. Tree Finder – Review of a Dichotomous Key For Plant Identification This post contains affiliate links because I believe in this curriculum. See full disclosure policy for more details….
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So now your children know how to read. Congratulations! That’s a major step, but does it mean that their reading instruction finished? Not at all, we’ve found. How to Read a Book: The Classic Guide to Intelligent Reading teaches the average reader how to understand, analyze, and learn from books. It takes students beyond the basics of reading to become…
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We are heading to ‘that’ time of the year when we begin making lists of curricula that we would like to include for the next academic year. Apart from my choices in the core curriculum, I often included (when my children were younger) a lapbook or notebook unit study on a subject that interested my children. This way we were…
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Reading aloud is one of the best, most impactful things we can do for our children. It’s also one of the easiest and simplest. Anyone can do it, it’s free or costs almost nothing, and doesn’t require any special knowledge or training. It doesn’t even have to involve a huge investment of time to be impactful. And it’s fun! This…
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Do you have any budding meteorologists in your home? Have you been taking extra notice of the weather lately due to unusual storms or frigid temperatures? Are you trying to find ideas for nature study when it’s too cold to be outside, or maybe looking for a fun science unit study? Well, The Kids’ Book of Weather Forecasting might be…
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