My oldest child will turn 16 this summer. Since he will be starting college in just two years, we have been doing a lot of prep work. This process has really opened my eyes to what has worked and what hasn’t over the last 11 years of homeschooling him. We have mostly unschooled, and [...]
Right now my parents are visiting from Ohio. They drove ten hours to see me, my husband and their three grandchildren—not necessarily in that order. We’ve spent the past few days driving them around, showing them all the reasons why we have come to love Alabama—in hopes of convincing them to move nearby! We visited [...]
Last year someone mentioned to me that they take the entire month of December off – no homeschooling. My initial reaction was – are they crazy? A whole month? What do they do with their kids with no school structure for a whole month? Aren’t they going to be behind? How will they ever finish? [...]
As a homeschooling family we have a pretty wide range of ways we homeschool. I wouldn’t call us “traditional schoolers” yet I wouldn’t call us complete “unschoolers” either. Depending on the child we incorporate a variety of learning methods in our home. We drill words, we go on nature walks, we read together, watch educational [...]
Four years and several months ago, our family made the decision to begin our homeschooling journey. At that point in time we lived in-town, in a quaint little neighborhood and enjoyed all the comforts that living in-town brought. Almost three years ago, our family embarked upon a journey moving into the country, enjoying a simpler [...]
Photo: Stock Xchng/ Horton Group Fall provides a great opportunity for all kinds of natural learning activities. With the change of season, you can incorporate all kinds of autumn-related activities into your homeschooling lessons. Here are nine ideas for fall activities, but you can use them as a springboard to doing all kinds of additional [...]