Helping You Turn Your Homeschool Challenges into Your Homeschool Charms
Child-inspired learning shifts the focus from rigid, teacher-directed curricula to fostering a learning environment driven by a child’s natural curiosity and interests. It recognizes that deep, lasting understanding arises from exploration and engagement initiated by the child, rather than solely from prescribed lessons.
Homeschool science engages a non-science-interested kid when you think about science as play. Homeschool science usually includes buying unusual items. Like this day: when we used volt meters, covered copper wiring, wire cutters, and steel wool. Oh, and pennies. Here’s where we learned how to Make a Penny Battery. Here’s how we homeschool science in…
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How do you incorporate geography in your homeschool? Loosely. With intention to playing. Fun is the operative. No serious allowed. So how do you incorporate geography in your homeschool in a child-directed way? Any time you come across a new country or location in a readaloud or a current affairs discussion find it on a…
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How do you incorporate fine arts in a child-directed way? Loosely. With the intention of playing. Fun is the operative. No serious allowed. Also, fill a basket of things you and your kiddos like to do and pull them out when you’re doing a readaloud. (And take turns reading, so you can play in your…
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capturing the charmed homeschool: creating clarity, confidence and vision in your homeschool
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How to use Little Women in your homeschool activities or celebrations? If there is anything we can do as homeschool mamas, it is to create memory-rich (& literature-rich) special celebrations, like my oldest daughter’s twelfth birthday. Madelyn and I planned the details for weeks. We printed a play from Louisa May Alcott’s book Little Women so…
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We want a homeschool teen’s perspective on homeschooling high school, following interests, socialization, unschooling a classical education, and pursuing her life’s passions. Madelyn is a dancer, a chef, a scientist, and a kind, nurturing heart (oh, and a just-graduated homeschooled teen). I offer you this homeschool teen’s perspective on her experience. Introducing one of my…
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