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Renee’s Homeschool Day in the Life (with a 9, 10 & 12-year-old)

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Written by contributor Renee Tougas of FIMBY The months of November and December were a planned homeschool break for us due to moving, celebrating birthdays and Christmas. We returned to our “in session” homeschool lessons and practice the Monday after New Year’s. On that day I recorded an actual homeschool day in the life. The [...]

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Jamie’s Homeschool Day in the Life (with a 6, 7, & 8-year-old)

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Written by Jamie Martin, editor of Simple Homeschool and founder of Steady Mom When I wrote about my homeschool day last year, I had no idea that by January 2012 we would have moved to our dream house in the country. My–how one year can change everything. I now find my children, inching ever so [...]

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Kris’s Homeschool Day in the Life (with a 16-, 12-, and 10-year-old)

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Written by contributor Kris of Weird, Unsocialized Homeschoolers I used to think that there wasn’t any such thing as a “typical” homeschool day. However, this year, with no outside classes (currently), we seem to have settled into a fairly predictable routine. Well, we had, anyway. With the start of the new year, my younger two [...]

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Amida’s Homeschool Day in the Life (with a 1, 5, 10, and 13-year-old)

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Written by contributor Amida of Journey Into Unschooling A lot of people assume that, just because we are homeschoolers, we spend the majority of our days at home. But between field trips and lessons for three kids, there are days where we are anywhere but home. So when my son suggested we have a Stay [...]

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How Our Christmas Bucket List is Helping Us Homeschool through the Holidays

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Written by contributor Hillary Boucher of infinitely learning Christmas. It’s wonderful and overwhelming all at the same time. In our attempts to create happy holiday memories and traditions for our families it’s easy to get overwhelmed, stressed, and quite possibly push your homeschooling to the back burner. While it’s perfectly okay to let go of [...]

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Why We Don’t Start School at 8 AM

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Written by contributor Kris of Weird, Unsocialized Homeschoolers You know those homeschooling families that get up before the sun, do their morning chores, have a big hearty breakfast, and start school by 8:00? Yeah, we’re not one of those. Not that there is anything wrong with being one of those families. To be honest, I [...]

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