When I first put this unit study together for my boys, we were living in Canada. Now we are living in California. My youngest child wanted to study botany this school year, so I pulled out this unit study and have updated it slightly to reflect where we live and…
We all want our children to be successful in school. How do we help our young children learn what they need to learn so when school starts they will be all set? I work full-time as a Speech-Language Pathologist with young children and their families. I go into the…
My 5th grader requested to learn more about the human body this school year. I did have a human body study put together, but it was geared toward younger children. As a result, I decided to create another one from scratch. I searched for a spine appropriate for this study…
My 5th grader will be starting on Story of the World Middle Ages. We are using the audio along with the activity book. My kid also enjoys learning through videos so we are supplementing the activity book with videos. Since we are doing an activity for almost every chapter…
I am unschooling my children. Unschooling is defined by people in different ways. Some may look at this blog and gasp at how I can use that word to describe our educational philosophy. It is true though. I define unschooling as natural child-led learning. This is found from the first…
Last school year we made a major change. We moved during the school year from Ontario, Canada to California. We started out homeschooling when we lived in Michigan way back in 2007. We had been living in Ontario since 2008! Last March we packed up a rental van with necessary…
I love homeschooling and the memories it has brought to my family. When this topic came up for the blog hop, I thought it would be good to hear it from a teen who has been homeschooled from the beginning. My son volunteered to write about his favorite homeschool memories:…
I was recently asked about homeschooling and social skills by someone who wasn’t familiar with homeschooling. Of course, the suggestion that a school shooting was perpetrated by a homeschooler was mentioned, lol. If you have been homeschooling awhile, I’m sure you have fielded the question many times. It was in…
Go for the gleam in the eye. In education, we often end to focus on what concepts our kids are learning or not learning. It is important to remember that leaning happens best when the child is interested. Think about it. Don’t you remember more when you are interested in…
Homeschooling gives power to the parent. Parents are really pretty knowledgeable creatures, after all. They know their kids inside and out and start from a position of love. That is a huge advantage when it comes to schooling. Sending a child to the local school takes power out of the…
