So often homeschool moms ask me, “How can I homeschool the older kids and keep the younger kids from interrupting and making school time so difficult?”
Read more5 Ways to Care for Toddlers While You Homeschool the Older Kids
4 Ways to Bring Living Books Into Your Home School
You’ve heard about living books and they sound great! You want your children to read books that are practically alive and exciting to read. But, where can you find them? What books are living books anyway?
Read more7 Ways Narration Can Help You Homeschool
Narration happens when a child can retell or write about what he has heard or read. Here are 7 reasons narration is a great benefit to home education.
Read more8 Steps to Choose the Best Curriculum for Your Family
Curriculum can have a big impact on how well you and your children enjoy homeschooling and how easy it is to learn. Curriculum can also be a big investment financially.
Read more9 Creative Ways to Turn Covid-19 into an Out-of-the-Box Home School Adventure
Do you realize that we are living through a time that will be written about in history books? This is an awesome to use this time to have some out-of-the box homeschool learning adventures.
Read moreMake Creation Week Come Alive with Lapbooking
Creation Week in Genesis 1-2 is the history of how the world began! It’s also a fun time in history to study with children. They love to learn how God created the stars, the animals, the waters, the sun, and people! It is so exciting that God...
Read moreCreate a Covid-19 Time Capsule with Your Family
Covid-19 is history unfolding right before our eyes! We definitely need to take advantage of this moment in time to learn, investigate, and journal. I also think it would be super cool to do a time capsule.
Read moreHow I Design Our Own Homeschool High School Courses
My philosophy is to keep things as simple and happy as possible. I want life to be enjoyable for the children and for me. Learning is fun! Even in high school.
Read more6 Smart Storage Solutions to Eliminate Homeschool Clutter
Years later, I found myself homeschooling. None of the homeschooling books I read mentioned the piles of papers, books, textbooks, art supplies, and completed projects that quickly took over my home.
Read moreHost A Gran Prix to Study 20th Century History the Fun Way!
Since we were learning about car racing, we decided to have some hands-on-fun! If you are studying the 1920s, what could be more fun than to have our own Grand Prix? Or at least a big race!
Read more8 Unique Graduation Party Menus
It’s graduation time. You are planning a party for your amazing son or daughter, feeling quite emotional. What about food? What should you serve your guests?Start with your graduate. Is there something special that he, or she, would like on the...
Read moreQuestions & Answers About Chores & Homeschooling
People often ask how we do chores in our family. This article is just me writing down all the questions I usually am asked and all the answers I usually give. How we do things is not the “RIGHT” way, it’s simply what works for...
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