In my house, we're officially done with the homeschool year. My son is very excited that he doesn't have to do any academics at the moment. I won't tell him that many of the things he's doing on his own are also educational :). In fact, yesterday he asked me to get him a handwriting …
How to celebrate the end of the homeschool year
While some of us homeschool all year round, most homeschoolers do take a break for the summer. We use it to travel and explore, to visit family, and just to relax and recharge before plunging back into our regular homeschool schedule. Before we take a break, though, we can take time to celebrate the end …
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More tips on wrapping up the homeschool year
Do you have piles of homeschool materials that accumulated over the course of the school year? Not sure what to keep and what to toss? Check out this post, How To Wrap Up Homeschooling for the Year, from our popular speaker, Cindy West. Here are more tips from Cindy on how to organize your e-books. …
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Homeschool Yearbook
My kids are much more creative than me. The mementos of our early homeschool year mostly consist of my slightly out of focus photos and some completed worksheets decorated by a toddler's scribbles. As the children got older, however, they took charge of chronicling our family experiences. One year, they discovered Snapfish. Since then, they've …
How to Take Stock of Your Homeschool Year
Last week, we discussed how to begin taking stock of the homeschool year with the positive. We look back and realize how much our children have grown and learned. We celebrate their accomplishments. Only then do we begin to consider what still needs to be completed and what can be improved in the following year. …
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Wrapping up the School Year
As the school year is coming to an end, we parents naturally tend to take stock of what our children have accomplished this year. Unfortunately, too many parents begin this process with negativity and guilt. They see what they perceive as glaring holes in the family’s homeschool year. They focus on the plans that didn’t …
Nature Journaling and Other Outdoor Schooling Resources
Hope you enjoying nice weather, wherever you're located. We've talked about outdoor schooling and its practical implementation. This week, we'll discuss nature journaling. A nature journal can be as simple as a blank notebook, where your children sketch and take notes on what they observe in nature. Your family can also collect leaves and flowers, …
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Practical Tips for Outdoor Schooling
Outdoor schooling can begin in your own backyard. The amazing thing about nature is that you can take a journey through the seasons without leaving your backyard. Begin with observing whatever you can from your backyard and notice how things change. Even in places with mild climates, you can notice changes throughout the seasons. For …
Outdoor Schooling
As homeschoolers, we are used to thinking out of the box. We know that learning doesn’t only happen at a desk or in a classroom. Our children are learning all the time. Our job as homeschooling parents is to provide them with an environment that facilitates their learning. One such environment is the outdoors, where …
Living Books for All Subjects
This week, I gave a talk at the 2022 Charlotte Mason Inspired Summit about using living books for all subjects. I spoke about the advantages of living books over textbooks and the importance of engaging our children emotionally in the learning process. As promised in the talk, below is a list of resources I mentioned …
