Getting ready for a new homeschool year is something that I look forward to doing every year. Getting new supplies, placing orders for materials, organizing our bookshelves, cleaning and organizing the house – it all gets me revved up and excited for the new school year. Whether this is your first year to homeschool [...]
These 4 habits for homeschool success will get you started on the right foot when school starts. A new school year is a new beginning for each of us. No matter what happened in the previous school year, we have a clean slate before us this year. Many homeschool families will begin their new [...]
We're offering 4 reasons for summer homeschooling in today's post. Many families have just finished the school year and the kids have been clamoring for a big summer break. If your family is anything like mine, after a few days the kids are bored, eating all of the food in the house, and screen [...]
Continuing education for home educators looks a lot different than the required continuing education that public school teachers participate in to sharpen and gain new skills. They go to workshops, training classes, and conventions. Home educators have no such requirements in most cases, but it's no less important for them to develop their own [...]
We've got 4 steps to save money on homeschool curriculum in this must read post! Our daily necessities are taking a bigger bite out of our budgets, leaving less money for other categories. For homeschooling families, who generally live on tight budgets anyway, inflation is making many of us wonder how we can homeschool [...]
Kids need adventure and excitement; unfortunately, they rarely get it in our modern world, except when playing online games such as Minecraft and Roblox. Recently my eleven-year-old son and I watched the 1960 movie Swiss Family Robinson. My son said, “Life would be a lot more exciting if I had things to do like [...]