Posts specifically about homeschooling or learning in a home environment.
Okay, so you have decided to homeschool. Now what? Good news! Homeschooling is very flexible. As you get started with a yearly plan, you get to decide when you hold your school days, how many days a week you plan to homeschool, and what types of “extras” you want to include in your school plans.
Are you ready to jump in to homeschooling? Awesome! You have to know that as soon as someone asks me a question about how to begin homeschooling, I am inwardly jumping up and down. I feel strongly that homeschooling your children is a great way to build your relationship with your children. It is truly
The stay-at-home order is a realy bummer to everyone. In an effort to get creative, here’s a list of some of the things we’ll be doing while stuck at home. Maybe some of these ideas inspire you too.
One of the true blessings of homeschooling is that I get to learn about everything along with my brilliant, curious, and excited children. Strangely, I learn the most from the “I don’t know” questions because my own self-directed learning is then interest-led. I am invested in finding the answer so I’ll know next time. This
When I first decided to homeschool, I felt overwhelmed and excited at the same time. There were things that helped ease me in to the process, and there are things that did not. It can be overwhelming as well as exciting. Here are some Dos and Dont’s to help new homeschoolers get off to a
In the past, I talked about why I’ve decided to call this blog “Line upon line.” Today, I want to explain the logo that you can see at the top of this blog.
If the walls could talk, they would tell you that I don’t spend my days sitting with my little ones around me on a cloud of rainbows. I don’t great my young students in a bright ray of sunshine as they arise from their slumbers. I don’t have a magic switch to turn myself into a delightful,
Once I turned homeschooling into a more hands-on environment, we’ve had a ton more fun with our schooling. If your kids are stuck in a desk doing worksheets, check out some of the amazing reasons I share below to approach homeschooling HANDS-ON.
In our homeschool, we do not spend a lot of time at home. As we live, our lives become homeschool field trips. Regular errands and tasks teach about our community. We also learn how all the parts of our community fit together. Field trips are a great way to learn from others, and also bond
Cinematic documentaries, movies set in a specific time period, chemists performing experiments on-screen: these are just a few of the ways that you can utilize movies in homeschooling to enhance learning. If you already use unit studies to teach your children then you probably know that a great way to meet the needs of your visual
Parents choose to homeschool for many different reasons. In my case, I feel that by bringing my son home he has a better environment for learning, better individualized instruction to meet his needs, more opportunity to develop a love of learning, and a greater outlet for socialization.
The more I make my kitchen kid-friendly, the more I can teach my own kids to take over the cooking tasks. Recipes for kids should include a couple of factors, the first of which is the recipe appeals to the children! They will like to eat it! The second factor I look for is that
