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 …
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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 …