One thing I want to incorporate into our upcoming homeschool year that we have never done before is to add in some creative writing. My daughter does some writing on her own here and there, a couple of years ago she was dictating her stories to me while I typed them out on the computer and now she’s switched over to writing her own stories out. Recently she was working on creating a list of characters for a story, it included a family tree and short descriptions of each of the characters, too cute. And while I love that she chooses to write her own stories I wanted to be…
Free Homeschool Vision Planner Guide Book
I’ve been thinking about our next homeschool year all summer and am super excited about it. Even though I don’t like to follow a detailed schedule I do like to make a plan for our year and this year I wanted to take it a step further and create a vision plan. I spent some time working out a series of questions to help create a vision for our homeschool and this year and I wanted to share it with you! The Homeschool Vision Planner Guide book is currently free to over on the Intentional Bundles site – you can grab your free homeschool vision planner guide book here. Enjoy!
Interest-Led Learning as a Family
When we first started homeschooling things here looked a lot like school at home. There was a fair bit of sitting down and book work. What we learned about was dictated by me and a bit by the provincial curriculum. Over the last few years we’ve changed from school at home to a more interest-led approach. Our days are heavy on the play and learning to love each other well (because #siblingconflict is a great learning opportunity). And the idea of “learning” being something you do when you are sitting down in a quiet room has gone out the window. Learning is something we do all the time and everywhere…
Free Notebooking Pages – Famous Canadians
One of the things I love about homeschooling is following the interests of my kids. I am really looking forward to the day when they “know what they want to be when they grow up” (or you know, at least an idea. I’m not even sure if I know what I want to be when I grow up) and we can take those interests and run with them. Raeca has been wanting to create some printables/books with me and so the other evening we sat on the couch and did some brainstorming. We both came up with ten ideas and she narrowed it down to her favorite. The next day…
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The Intentional Homeschooling Mini Planner
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 how much the kids are learning as we go about our daily lives. Enter the Intentional Homeschooling Mini Planner: I am super excited…
The Early Learning Bundle is Here! For This Week Only!
If you’ve been around the blog for a few months you will probably know that every few months I like to feature the newest bundle from Intentional Bundles. I have been organizing these bundles for almost three years now and they are always a lot of fun because it’s a chance where you can get a ton of resources for a steal of a deal. This time we are having our first ever Early Learning Bundle with products geared towards preschoolers and kindergarteners so if you are teaching that age range you are going to want to check this deal out. Especially because it is also our first ever mini bundle which…
