These are posts I’ve written about my adventures homeschooling my children. Check out my book reviews, my math page and my games page as well! You can also check out my links page for lots of other great homeschooling resources.
* denotes my notes on unit studies.
Thoughts about homeschooling:
- Preparing to send my kids to school.
- Choosing to homeschool again.
- how does one homeschool with all the intensity that involves and remain a compassionate, involved person aware of what’s going on in the world?
- building community and homeschooling mommy wars
- 6 tips for staying motivated throughout the homeschooling year
- Today I want to appreciate the constant chatter.
- Who is the “me” who needs “me time” today?
- Where to start homeschooling? At the library!
- “you sound just like a little adult…”
- dealing with the homeschooling insecurity
- holidays, house cleaning and homeschooling
- Importance of Content, Imagination and Play
- homeschooling three children – and another math activity
- Is parent-led unschooling an oxymoron?
- Homeschooling: Why I don’t use worksheets much
- Homeschooling and Computers
Language Arts
- Lesson ideas using Superman comics *
- The Dictionary Dilemma
- Riddle writing instructions
- Learning and teaching about pronouns
- Shakespeare Revisted
- Minecraft Shakespeare
- Introducing Young Children to Shakespeare
- Trying to increase the educational value of Minecraft through open-ended questions.
- Michael Clay Thomspon grammar and vocabulary series requires both of us to learn more
- Reflections on education, inspired by a book on Ancient Rome
- Lesson plans and ideas based on the Phantom Tollbooth by Norton Juster
Science
- Life forms in our back yard: wildflowers, mealybugs and monarchs.
- learning about Marie Curie and radioactivity *
- Nature Study ideas
- Food Science Fun
- Science in the Park
- Elementeo, the card game, and other resources for teaching children about the elements.
- What I want the children to learn from a unit on space.*
- Moving levers and looking at how everything ties in together
- Introducing a Seven Year Old to Albert Einstein *
- doing science – measuring grapes and a new twist on homemade model volcanoes
- Learning Through Play: Exploring Gears
- Learning Through Play: Exploring Mechanical Force
- Learning through Play: transportation through cell membranes.
- learning through play: air cannons and marble mazes
- Learning Through Play: the circulatory system
- science, math and religion, or how do you know what you know?
- Intelligent Design: money and PR instead of science
Crafts
- homemade lavalamps
- creating collages as a way of practicing letting go of perfectionism
- spices as nature’s glitter.
- Halloween Witches Play Brew & Monsters in Boxes
- Secret Picture Spinner
History, Geography and Social Studies
- Learning about the Borgia family – for fans of Horrible Histories *
- continuing my homeschooling discussion of the Renaissance
- Lessons using Superman comics *
- Frédéric Joliot-Curie *
- Books about the 19th Century *
- Train Poems
- Christina Rossetti – philosophical questions within her poetry & life *
- Teaching history to my homeschooled kids
- Homeschooling Resources for learning about the Norman Conquest *
- Henry Hudson, 17th Century Navigation and my homeschooling children *
- Books about Life in Northern Canada
- Homeschooling Topic of the Week: The Arctic and Antarctic
- Medieval History, Robin Hood & Homeschooling Ideas *
- Ancient Egypt – Recommended Resources for Homeschoolers
- Sharing Beethoven with my children
Other
Day to Day Life Homeschooling
- monarch release
- Summertime and homeschooling
- It’s Spring!
- Christmas Time Fun
- The Just About Perfect Homeschool Day
- Another Week Homeschooling
- Homeschooling Weekly Round-Up Post
- Homeschooling Weekly Wrap-Up
- Moving levers and looking at how everything ties in together
Parenting
- Gifted Child, Gifted Parent
- The G-Word: giftedness in kids and adults
- why some parenting advice is more useful than others
- Something that might fail: monarch caterpillars
- in defense of Disney Princesses
Homeschooling, society and culture
- homeschooling, both religious and secular, and the need for accountability
- in the world but not of it
- the biggest problem in homeschooling circles
- is there such a thing as a neutral education system
