It’s that time of year again: time for some great homeschool savings! This week is the third annual Intentional Homeschooling Bundle. But don’t think for a minute because it’s the third annual that there are the same products in this bundle, they are completely different products from last years bundle. This bundle contains products for the whole school range: from kindergarten to grade 12! If you’ve been around here for awhile you’ll already know that we work with some great content creators for the bundles and the bundles include a lot of value for a really good price. How good of a price? Think over $250 in products but you…
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The Intentional Homeschooling Mini Planner
Psst: if you purchase the Intentional Homeschooling Bundle by Tuesdsay at 11:59pm PST you’ll receive a copy of the Intentional Homeschooling Mini Planner for free! Today I’m excited to share something with you that I have been thinking about for quite some time: a homeschool mini planner! I am a planner girl through and through but traditional planners and most homeschool planners don’t work with our relaxed/minimal/homeschooling as a lifestyle ways. I like to have a little bit of planning but also a fair bit of just documenting what we did. I also knew I wanted there to be prompts for different areas of our homeschool because sometimes I forget…
10 Grade Three Read Aloud Novels
This has been a good year for read alouds in our home. We’ve re-read a few of our favorites and found some new favorites! If you’ve been here for awhile you’ll probably already know that when I say “read aloud” 90% of the time I mean “audiobook”. For us that works best, we mostly like to listen at lunch and when we are out driving. Oh, while we are on the topic of books, I took some time this week to organize the book lists on the site a bit. You can now view them by category! Check out the book lists by category: Picture Books Elementary Chapter Books Middle…
Math at the Swimming Pool and Our Homeschool Lately
Back when I started this homeschool blog I used it more to share peeks inside of our homeschool journey and it’s been awhile since I’ve done that so here we are: here’s a little peek into our homeschool lately. THE DREADED WINTER I first need to admit that this has been a hard winter personally for myself which definitely affects our homeschool. I really want to do some themed studies soon but this winter has felt like survival through the cold was as much as I could muster. Now that things are warming up here on the Canadian prairies I am getting excited to get outside and start getting…
Classic Novels for Middle School
Middle grade books are admittedly some of my favorites to read. Both when I was in middle school and now as an adult. My only regret is that I hardly read any classics when I was in middle school. I have been remedying that problem as an adult and have read a lot of great middle grade classics over the last few years. Today’s list includes some great middle grade classics for you to read to or with your middle schoolers or suggest they read on their own. That being said, remember, middle grade books aren’t just for middle schoolers! Many upper elementary students will also enjoy these books as…
How to Teach Math Without a Curriculum
As relaxed/minimal homeschoolers one of the big things we do to keep things relaxed is not follow a curriculum. So many times before I have heard people say “Oh, we don’t follow a curriculum . . . except for math.” For some reason parents often feel confident teaching all the subjects except for math. Have you ever felt that way? The truth is, teaching kids math doesn’t have to be hard and you don’t have to follow some pre-written curriculum for your kids to get it! Now, before I get into this post, let me share that math has never been my strong suit, I don’t find math easy to…
