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.
Once upon a time, for seven years of our homeschool journey, our family travelled on the regular. During this Remembrance season, I share our field trip to world war sites. There’s nothing like a developing world experience, a dose of traveler’s diarrhea, malaria, a military coup an hour away, airport scanning for Ebola, and visiting…
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Halloween homeschool fun is a day devoted to candy and costumes in our home. The kids think it’s grand fun when we get to spend the day playing games, dressing up, and walking door-to-door in our friendly neighbourhood visiting friends, asking for candy, experiencing a neighbor’s magic trick, and being entranced by clever costumes. This…
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What did we do for our sixth year of homeschooling with four kids aged 6 to 14? I share the curriculum and plans here.
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What do I include in a homeschool art program? The kids would like to think they’ve finished their studies for the year. In reality, we’ve switched gears. A couple of the girls continue their math program for a short period after breakfast, to keep the concepts alive in their minds or learn new concepts for…
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How I transitioned from homeschool to public high school, the heartwrenching homeschool mama’s experience, oh and the teen’s too!
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How to do homeschool fine arts study? We begin each day reading poems or passages and flip through fine art books too.
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