Contributer Amida writes for Journey into Unschooling. Sometimes I think mothers are born packers. Starting with that homecoming bag from the hospital delivery room, we have been prepping for our kids’ every away-from-home need. When my own kids were younger, I had filled the car with all sorts …
Archives for April 2014
“Homeschool” – “school” = HOME
Affiliate links are included in this post. "There is no place like home." ~ L. Frank Baum, The Wizard of Oz Home. What comes to mind when I mention the word? For many of us the stereotype of home (and if we're fortunate, our own experience of it from childhood) brings up certain …
Preschool at home
Affiliate links are included in this post. Note: This sale is over, but you can still order these resources individually! Though it now seems long ago, I remember perfectly when my oldest two kids were preschool-age. Steve and I had just made the decision to homeschool, and I couldn’t wait …
How I plan our homeschool days
It all feels so official sometimes: I'm homeschooling three children. Surely I need a teacher's lesson planning book, the kind I used to see in the classroom, right? They look so professional, after all. Yet the longer I'm at this gig, the less I seem to plan and the more our days seem to …
How to ROCK the last few weeks of your homeschool year
The following is a post by Kara Anderson. In our family, we have tried many school year schedules. We’ve tried summers off, summers on, occasional month long breaks and once, a 6-week-on-one-week-off rotation that I never successfully kept track of, meaning that often it was more like 8.5 …
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