Homeschool

Incorporating Holidays and Homeschool Learning This blog uses affiliate links. Please read my disclosure policy. The holidays are just around the corner (at least according to the stores), and since I like to incorporate them into our school calendar, I plan now for some holiday-related books and activities. I schedule chapter books beginning … [Read more...] about Planning Unit Studies for the Holidays

If you homeschool, do you consider yourself to be a teacher? Do you feel empowered to make decisions for your homeschool and not be at the mercy of what the book says? Well, here is your permission slip: From the day you became a parent, you also became a teacher, and you are equipped to teach your child. A major cause of homeschool failure … [Read more...] about Homeschool Mom Permission Slip

Homeschool Successfully – Perfection Not Required! If you need some encouragement and practical tips for homeschooling, don't miss the Homeschool Successfully Blog Party! This event includes over a month of encouragement, tips, freebies, and giveaways to help you get started. As part of this series, I wrote an article for Proverbial Homemaker … [Read more...] about Homeschool Successfully (Perfection Not Required)

A Homeschool Planner for a Year-Round Schedule This blog uses affiliate links. Please read my disclosure policy. After trying many different planners over all of our years of homeschooling, I have found that I need something that I can customize to meet my needs and that comes in a format that allows me to move pages around, add, or remove them … [Read more...] about Homeschool Planner for a Year-Round Schedule

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 Mommy? That's the question of the century, … [Read more...] about 5 Tips for Homeschooling Multiple Ages

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 this time of year is a little advance preparation. Get Organized. Save Time … [Read more...] about Frugal Planning for Back-to-School