Written by Heather Woodie of Blog She Wrote. If you’ve been homeschooling a while, then you know that the early days of homeschooling are among the sweetest. What could be better than gathering young children around to work together on reading and simple projects? But as our homeschooled …
Archives for April 2015
How to homeschool through illness
Homeschooling Through Illness ~ Written by Alecia Baptiste. There is nothing like illness to put a huge monkey wrench in your homeschooling plans. Or any kind of plans! Many years ago, when my children were much younger, I spent two years battling severe fatigue and just feeling bad all of the …
How to read aloud every day
How to Read Aloud Every Day ~ Written by Sarah Mackenzie of Amongst Lovely Things. I'm convinced that the minutes and hours I spend reading to my children are the best invested moments of my entire life. With six kids underfoot to love on and teach, I fight a constant feeling that I’m not …
Create your own math playground
This post contains affiliate links. Written by Jamie Martin of Simple Homeschool and Steady Mom Since late-February I've been writing a series about math in our homeschools--trying to investigate this subject from a different angle. (Get it, angle?!! Math humor, gotta love it.) Up until now …
6 lessons I learned from traveling the world
Written by Charity Hawkins, author of The Homeschool Experiment: A Novel. This past spring our family embarked upon a trip that had always been a dream of mine. We spent a week in the Washington D.C. area, four weeks in the United Kingdom, and ten days in France. It was a huge challenge and …