Every year as summer winds down, inspiration strikes me when I’m shopping at my favorite store. You know, the one with the hypnotizing bull’s-eye and all that inviting redness? When the water guns disappear and are replaced by colorful displays of glue, markers, and folders, I want to pull a school list from the end […]
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Back to School Frugal Planning
The school supplies section always calls my name this time of year. Can you hear it? Sharp pencils . . . colorful notebooks . . . pretty folders . . . spiffy new backpacks! As tempting as it is to buy yet another new box of Crayolas, the best prevention for overspending for back to […]
You CAN’T Homeschool High School
Homeschool Myths Busted You CAN’T Homeschool High School It’s just too hard. I can’t teach high school subjects–I barely even passed Algebra myself. Creating a transcript is impossible! I will fail my child, and he won’t get into college. She won’t get to go to prom if she homeschools through high school. He will miss out on […]
Homeschooling Algebra: A Different Perspective
Tears . . . That is the first word that comes to my mind when I think of the word algebra. My past experience with algebra wasn’t great. I struggled to understand the concepts, spent hours studying, and got help with my homework from friends and family. I just didn’t get it. When we decided to […]
Easy High School Record Keeping
Record keeping! (I’m not talking about that cute little sparkly box filled with your vinyl 45s.) It kind of brings on a deer-in-the-headlights look when some of us are faced with keeping records for our high school students. I remember saying that we would take homeschooling one year at a time when we first started […]
Planning for Homeschooling High School
Are you homeschooling high school? As part of the Back to Homeschool Blog Party hosted by Amy of Encouraging Moms at Home, I am sharing my plan for facing the high school years in your homeschool. This year, I have a college sophomore, along with a high school junior, and a middle schooler, and we […]
Homeschooling with a Toddler in the House
Toddler Time: 7 Activities to Keep Them Busy Everyone has made it to the table, and Mommy is trying to review multiplication facts with one child and monitor a science lesson with another child, with a toddler who has become mobile and wants to be the focus of attention. Sound familiar? I have been through […]
What to Read Wednesday: Homeschooling Books
The Best Homeschooling Books This blog uses affiliate links. Please read my disclosure policy. Welcome to What to Read Wednesday! This week officially marks the beginning of Back-to-School month for many families, including ours. My oldest starts his sophomore year of college in a few weeks, and we are gearing up for another adventure-filled year […]
5 Tips for Homeschooling Multiple Ages
Help for Homeschooling Multiple Ages (How to make it work when there are more of them and only one of you.) I’ve been getting our curriculum organized for school to start–hopefully we will be ready before the end of this week. So, how do I manage three different ages/grades for school when I’m just one […]
EASE Into Middle School
Is My Child Ready for High School? How do you prepare your middle schooler for high school? High school seems like such a daunting event for many homeschool moms, and “the experts” often make us feel like we are behind before we even start. Once sixth grade gets under way, panic sets in with the […]
5 Ways to Motivate Middle School Writers
Ah, middle school! A time of hormone surges and living in a sort of limbo stage between childhood and adulthood. As a parent, I do sometimes feel like we’re living in the Matrix when it’s time to sit down and focus on “schoolwork.” And English gets a bad rap anyway as a “boring” required class. […]
Year-Round Homeschooling
Our Year-Round Homeschooling Journey When we first started our homeschool journey, we pulled my son out of a K5 program three weeks into the school year and started off following the local school calendar. I soon realized that I could cater our calendar to our needs, and not let the school calendar dictate our lives. […]