Begin: Meet Growly Bear

growlyfirst

If there's one thing homeschoolers know well, it's books. We take pride in our growing, cluttered shelves--our stacks here, there and everywhere. And when we find a new one that our kids take to heart, when we see them happily sprawled across their … [Continue reading]

How to make your homeschool an endless summer

how to make your homeschool an endless summer

Written by contributor Jena of Yarns of the Heart May is a time of endings and beginnings. Graduation, summer vacation...the world tends to follow a public school clock, and even though we homeschoolers aren't confined by these boundaries, we … [Continue reading]

How to homeschool without actually homeschooling

how to homeschool without actually homeschooling

Jamie Martin, editor of Simple Homeschool, also blogs about motherhood at Steady Mom At the start of the new year many of you completed a survey for those of us who blog under the Simple Living Media umbrella. I admit to being rather surprised … [Continue reading]

Weekend links

weekend links

When the best of times ends in the worst of times :: I'm so saddened to report that the mommy blogger community lost one of our own this week with the tragic death of Kathreen Ricketson. Please join me in prayers for her two children, ages 13 and … [Continue reading]

Resources for interest-led learning

curriculum fair 2012

Written by Jamie Martin, editor of Simple Homeschool and Steady Mom A note from Jamie: Though I chose not to do a full curriculum fair this year, there are plenty of curriculum posts in the archives for those interested in scrolling through them as … [Continue reading]

How to help your kids fall in love with history

how to help your kids fall in love with history

Written by contributor Kris Bales of Weird, Unsocialized Homeschoolers. History is boring! Okay, not really, but that's definitely how I felt when I was in school. Now, history is my favorite subject to learn alongside my kids and one of their … [Continue reading]

Weekend links

The love of a mother

What I need :: Clean Let Newtown moms know they're not alone this Mother's Day :: Sandy Hook Promise No big deal, but this researcher's theory explains everything about how Americans parent :: Slate A tale of two educations: The motivated … [Continue reading]