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There are so many homeschool resources that you could never ever utilize everything you wanted to even if you taught your kids 24/7 until they turned 45. Seriously. Think about it…free curriculum, homeschool blogs, books, ideas, papers, magazines…all with great ideas..and so much of the time I feel like I should be doing everything..whew!
This is a picture that one of my kids took of a night sky recently. I thought it was interesting in many ways but the best thing is that once the picture was taken conversation was started as to why the clouds were the way they were. We talked about reflection, both natural light [...]
One thing so many of us have in common is that way have way more things that we would like to buy than the money to buy them.
It is that time of year again. Whether you unschool, do abeka, use unit study, or a combination of things it still is the traditional time of those ominous words that called you home before the fireflies came out that one fateful night every year….End of summer.
Back in the 80’s when I first dipped a tentative toe in homeschooling we kept our kids inside from 8-4 so as not to get questioned by neighbors. We didn’t exactly sneak around but we were cautious not to attract attention. We kept ourselves separate from school systems and anything that looked [...]
Little kids are fun. They have such a natural curiosity that it is very easy to lead them in learning about nature and science. Kyrie is 4 and she is fascinated by everything from grasshoppers to the funnel clouds we see over head once in awhile. She takes in information eagerly, [...]
The biggest temptation I have always had as my kids enter the high school years is to stop and grab curriculum so that I am comfortable that they are progressing at an *average * rate.
I mentioned on my other post that I have my kids keep a blog for credit. I don;t really cadr so much what they actually write about, only that they DO write. I also tend to get harsher with them as time goes on about spell check, grammar, and content.
Basically high school subjects are chopped up into the following catagories (not in order):
This is an easy way to keep track of what your high schooler is learning. Basically your high schools student will write their own textbooks. |
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