I love homeschooling. I feel like I’ve really found my tribe in the last couple of years. Last week I posted a variation of this photo on Instagram: I thought it would be fun to see what others thought were signs of homeschooling and got quite the response. I made each answer into…
Back in the spring we spent quite a bit of time studying knights. I was reading Knights in Training and hosted an online book club about the book and then I took my kids through some knight training exercises. I would highly recommend grabbing a copy of Knights in Training and reading through…
In the last few weeks we have been doing what I’ve dubbed as “relaxed notebooking”, I share more about the concept in my Homeschooling as a Lifestyle Workshop but in essence we have been picking topics each week to do mini unit studies on. This approach works really well with our relaxed, interest-led homeschool style. I thought…
You know how you never really know what you have until it’s gone? That’s kind of how imagination was for me. I just assumed every child had a great imagination but it wasn’t until we brought our son home that I realized that wasn’t how it worked. Imagination is incredibly important to me, not only…
I remember at the beginning of every school year in middle school and high school vowing to make that the year that I kept my binder and notes much more organized. That generally lasted about a month and by the time Christmas came my binder was a complete disorganized mess. Was I the only that…
Last week I shared our favorite kindergarten homeschool resources and today I wanted to share our favorite grade three resources. Because we view homeschooling as a lifestyle we don’t follow a purchased or pre-made curriculum but rather create a list of broad homeschool goals for the year and create our own “curriculum” (using the term…