Written by contributor Jessica Fisher of Life as Mom and Good Cheap Eats This week our family completed our eleventh year of homeschooling. Really? How did that happen?! The time has passed so quickly. It seems like just yesterday my son was doing beginning reading and now this week he turns …
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Resources for interest-led learning
Written by Jamie C. 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 you make plans for the upcoming year. You can …
The transformative power of historical fiction
The following is a guest post written by Caroline Starr Rose of Caroline by line and the verse novel May B. What’s the point of historical fiction? Publisher’s Weekly recently ran an interview with Newbery and Newbery-Honor medalist Karen Cushman, one of children’s literature’s most celebrated …
Free educational resources you might not have heard of
Once upon a time I believed that homeschooling, done well, required a significant financial investment. Private schools and the amount spent by the government on each public school student certainly suggest that education comes at a high price. After a couple of years, however, I began to notice …
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Becoming brave writers: A review of The Writer’s Jungle
Written by contributor Lora Lynn Fanning of Vitafamiliae Last semester, I determined my third grade twins should do a writing project. I requested a paragraph from each about their history studies. Simple, right? A week later, we were all in tears and only after much angst did they eke out …
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