Homeschool graduations are as individual as homeschooling families! For as long as you’ve homeschooled, you’ve focused on an individualized approach that best suits your child. As you celebrate this capstone event in their education, craft an event that reflects that attitude!
Crafting a Homeschool Graduation Ceremony Read Post »
Summer is just around the corner, and if you’re like many moms, you may be wondering how to get the kids off of technology and into a book once in a while, right? This is my “how-to guide” for summer reading for teens.
Summer Reading for Homeschool Teens Read Post »
Veteran homeschoolers talk about the importance of planning to a successful school year. Even more casual “unschoolers” realize that some sort of schedule or at least loose plan helps to create a feeling of completion at the end of the day. It’s not necessary to get legalistic about it, of course, but most people do enjoy being able to cross items off their to-do list.
Is a “Word of the Year” Useful for Homeschoolers? Read Post »
There are tons of tech tools on the internet for homeschoolers. Apps that you can use to help your child learn, apps that help you handle your finances, apps that help you save money or keep track of homemaking must-do’s. Sometimes, however, apps are just one more thing to keep up or one more thing to check on. And in the process, it just adds stress to your life. Who needs that?
Top 10 Free (or Mostly) Homeschool Productivity Apps Read Post »
Well it’s the back-to-school season for many families – homeschooling or not – and I don’t know about you, but my feeds have been burning up with planning and organizing and curriculum-related posts. It’s like that every year at this time, right? But here’s one that you won’t see much of: the effect that music might will have on your day! Through both scientific studies and personal experience, music has been shown to have a lasting effect on our memories and emotions, and if you were a fly on the wall in our homeschool, you would hear it running in the background most of the day.
Top 10 Tunes to Get You in the Back-to-School Groove! Read Post »
Our family has been a part of co-ops in so many shapes and forms over the years. We’ve gone from 2 to 8 to 25 (at least) families; we’ve done just-for-fun classes, to studying history through the arts, to learning via the classical approach; teachers have ranged from “just” volunteer moms to employed teaching professionals in their fields. We’ve had classes in living rooms, Sunday school rooms, museum halls, and playgrounds. Co-ops can look and be set up in so many ways, and while none of them are perfect, I am sold on the format and the opportunities they provide.
Top 10 Reasons to Join a Homeschool Co-op Read Post »
May, according to the Association of American Publishers, is Latino Book Month! I am a Latina. My mother’s side of the family is Hispanic (Puerto Rican by birth and culturally Cuban), and even though I’ve always been a voracious reader, I have to be honest that I’ve been a little short on books written by Latina authors. So the researcher in me got to researchin’…
May Is Latino Book Month! Books for Homeschoolers Read Post »
Each year on April 12th, we celebrate a national day to honor reading. Even better, the whole month is often devoted to activities and events to encourage the love of reading in your children and within your family and circle of friends. The first D.E.A.R. Day was introduced in Beverly Cleary’s book Ramona Quimby, Age 8. The goal of the program is to make reading a regular part of everyone’s routine.
Ideas for Celebrating D.E.A.R. Day (Drop Everything and Read) Read Post »
Dr. Seuss has been a favorite at our house since, well, forever! His creative use of the language appealed to my husband, a theatre major in college, who enjoyed amusing our kids as he read to them while they were young. A quick Google search or a perusal through Pinterest will yield a ton of fun ideas to help you celebrate his birthday (coming up on March 2) with little ones, but you definitely don’t have to give up the party with your middle- or high-school-aged kids, either!
Celebrating Dr. Seuss Day With Your Teens Read Post »