A No Fail Guide to Your First Summer Homeschooling
Getting your work done while the kids are at home this summer
You Need the Homeschool Mom Summer Summit FREE Pass
The Homeschool Mom Summer Summit is filled with powerful, professional speakers. The five day event could not be timed better! It is exactly what homeschooling parents need right now. Tips, systematic plans, detailed explanations, summer learning ideas and TONS of encouragement for mom are getting served up every day. Summer break is a perfect time…
A Lasting Valentine’s Day Gift for Homeschoolers
Are you looking for a Valentine’s Day gift for homeschoolers that won’t get eaten in ten minutes? One that might last the rest of the school year and provide a little entertainment too. I love giving mini-games to my kids for holiday celebrations. Your children can leave a silly love note and have a couple…
Puzzles are the Best Homeschool Anatomy Study Aid
As a young artist, I spent hours poring over head, hand, and other anatomy studies in human drawing books and scientific textbooks. Dr. Livingston’s Anatomy Jigsaw Puzzles take anatomy studying to a whole new level. We never considered using puzzles as a homeschool anatomy study aid, but we are loving these. I will be reviewing…
How to Teach Your Kids About the Presidential Primary
The time for the presidential primary is almost upon us. I would like to share the materials I have found for my homeschool to teach my kids about the whole election process. If your child is in Government & Economics right now, this article will provide a few resources for you to use as a…
Do this to Make Creative Writing Fun for Your Homeschool
Journal prompts or small ungraded writing assignments are a fantastic way to make writing more fun and help your child explore the idea of being creative. Think of these journals as creative training wheels. We have been using the My Year of Writing Journal in our homeschool with my high school kids with great results….
Using Word Roots to Improve ACT/SAT Test Scores
We are using Word Roots from Critical Thinking Co, in our homeschool to prepare to college entrance exams. In homeschooling, we try to keep our end goals in site at planning times. When looking at curriculum for our three current high school students, prep for the SAT or ACT tests were a priority. One of…
Better School Day Transitions with Mini-Game Breaks
I love creative homeschool tools. Adding smart games like IQ Circuit is one of the ways we give the kids learning challenges during transition times throughout the homeschool day. This game has several levels of challenges, so all of the kids like taking part in a quick challenge while they wait for a sibling to…
How to Work and Homeschool with Film School
Film School for Teens My kids watched Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, and it was an actual school requirement from Film School For Teens. This year we added a few online homeschool classes to our school day because I am working outside of the house a few days a week. Obviously, I am…
Need a Multi Age Economics Curriculum & Government Study?
Are you looking for a fast paced way to get Government & Economics covered in your homeschool. Maybe you would like a little more flexibility in your lesson plan to still cover your core subjects daily? Are you trying to cover material with multiple ages? A multi age Economics Curriculum and US Government can be…
Build Focus & Drawing Skills for Kids in 90 Days
I have a daughter who loves to draw. She loves cartoons and has a skill for drawing Anime style characters. I was happy to get the chance to review Cognitive Drawing; Learning the Male Figure by Jason Brubaker. Summer is a time for learning new skills Drawing is one that we don’t take the time…
Best Fun Tool to Teach Your Kids How to Code
Programming is the language of computers and the tech world is speaking it. There are plenty of online computer programming courses for older kids, but I discovered that Code Rocket is a fun way to introduce computer science to my younger kids. I love how the Rocket provided gives them immediate feedback to the code…
Getting to the Root of Healthy Competition Among Siblings
As a freelance writer I strive to connect with publications that offer homeschooling families tips tools and resources they can use now. I loved getting to work with Homeschool Life Magazine to share about sibling competition. Check out the magazine for the full article but here is an excerpt… “Competition is a part of everyday…
Intentional Bible Time this Summer for Kids
What if you could lead with a guide? My friend Kerry has created an entrusted children’s Bible study. There is enough variety, flexibility and freedom to help any parent lead it from home. Walking With God has all the elements of a study all the kids will look forward to. It is filled with enough…
Your Homeschool Binder: One Tool to Keep You Headed in the Right Direction
Over the years we developed many great practices. For relationships, discipline, planning, and streamlining our day. As I began teaching about homeschooling, I needed a way to teach the habits we cultured organically over eighteen years. I created The Accountability Bundle in our homeschool binder as a way to give parents a concrete way to implement habits and create accountability to follow through for the long haul.