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Choosing a Homeschool Approach – Understand Your Child First

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I am convinced of the need for many homeschoolers to think outside the box when choosing a homeschool approach. There are many websites available that tell homeschoolers exactly how to do their schooling. These approaches focus on a certain way of scheduling, a demanding philosophy, or a particular curriculum. For some families these approaches …

Relaxed Homeschooling Curriculum for a Creative Gifted Child

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Would it be wrong to start off a post about relaxed homeschooling curriculum choices for the upcoming year and admit that a lot of the time I feel like I have no idea what I'm doing? Would it make you feel better to know that I have a degree in education, am an experienced teacher, and I still find homeschool planning challenging? That's …

The Worries Every Homeschool Mom Has (and Why You Can Stop Worrying)

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There are some worries that seem to be common to almost every homeschool mom. We worry to varying degrees, but I think there are concerns that cross our minds whether it is once a semester or once a week. (Or, during those days, once an hour!) And then we have our own individual worries based on our unique family situations. There are things …

Are You Choosing the Wrong Learning Materials for Your Child?

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One of the things I'm passionate about as an educator and curriculum developer is that learning materials for young children should be visually engaging, colorful, well-designed and simple. Reaching this balance is a challenge, but it can be done. I'm really picky about the aesthetics of any materials I use with Caroline whether it is a worksheet, …

How We Ended Up Relaxed Homeschoolers and What It Looks Like

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I realized we were relaxed homeschoolers around the beginning of Caroline's second grade year. Prior to that, I struggled to answer the question of what kind of homeschoolers we were. This was primarily due to trying to determine how to best teach Caroline according to her specific needs as opposed to any uncertainty I had regarding a specific …

Caroline’s First Stop Animation Movie

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Caroline (who is seven) has been fascinated by stop animation movies, especially since she found the Basilmentos channel on YouTube. So today she used the camera she received from Grandpa and Grandma S. for Christmas to make her first stop animation movie (with some help from Daddy!). She spent several hours working on this and I was very …

Sticker Dolly Dressing – Sticker Books as Learning Tools

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I purchased Sticker Dolly Dressing Around the World probably almost a year ago. It sat on the shelf until it seemed like the "right" time to get it out and use it with Caroline. This fall was the right time and so we've been enjoying it! Using Sticker Books for Learning One of the things we like to do as part of our learning is snuggle on the …

Must-Haves for Homeschooling a Creative Girl

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My husband and I are blessed with a creative little girl. She has more imagination in her pinky than I have in my entire body. She lives in a world of possibilities where her stuffed animals are her real friends and she's never met a plot she didn't want to recreate! So how do you home educate a creative girl? Creatively, of course! It …

Homeschool Curriculum for a Right Brained, Spirited Child

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I've been thinking off and on all summer about our right brain homeschool curriculum choices for my spirited child for this coming school year. I'm one of those people who has to investigate, read, and then let it all ruminate in my subconscious before I can make a decision. Now we're getting to the time to make decision so here we go! Right Brain …

Why I Homeschool in the Afternoon and Not the Morning

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Long before I ever had Caroline, I read a book called Homeschooling: A Patchwork of Days: Share a Day With 30 Homeschooling Families. (This was also pre-homeschool blogs for the most part!) The book gave a day-in-the-life story of thirty different homeschool families. The families varied widely in curriculum, size, location, etc. But one thing I …

The Gift of Creativity and Beauty in Our Homeschool

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When I became a home educator I desired to have a creative and beautiful environment. I wasn’t a teacher decorating bulletin boards any longer, but I did want to take the extra steps to make things aesthetically pleasing for my daughter. Like her father and mother, she is very much impacted by the aesthetics around her. Beauty is naturally in …

Teaching Our Spirited, Active Child to Read

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I wanted to bring together two topics near and dear to my heart in this one post: spirited children and homeschooling. More specifically, teaching a spirited child to read. (If you aren't familiar with the concept of a spirited child or wonder if you have one, you might want to check out my spirited child page that has lots of resources and …

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