Early on in homeschooling, I began looking for different homeschool groups in the area. I wasn’t really looking for a co-op where someone else would be teaching my children. After all, I love teaching and was looking forward to teaching…
We don’t watch the evening news around here because I don’t want my kids exposed to it right now. But, they aren’t sheltered from it by any means. We discuss what is going on in the world, but they don’t…
When I was a classroom teacher, many of the teachers used writing prompts with kids throughout the year. We did this because our school district always had a spring writing prompt. Kids were assigned a topic and had to write…
Have you ever found a homeschool curriculum that you fell in love with and wished you’d found it sooner? I have. For me, it was unit studies by Home School in the Woods. They have such fun history curriculum options…
I remember snippets from high school classes. Some I remember fondly, while others…well, you know how it is. One memory I carry with me even today is from my freshman English class. We studied Greek and Latin morphemes. I never…
Reading is an essential skill kids need to learn. It is hard, though, when you have a child, in which reading doesn’t come easy. I don’t have struggling readers, but you can bet I worked with many as a former…
New school year; new curriculum. Yay! I am a bit of a curriculum freak. So I get sooo excited when it is time to find new materials for the next school year. And now, I get to look for 7th…
Do you have an artist in your homeschool? Or maybe you have a child that really enjoys doing art and would like to try different techniques. I know my kids (myself included) have a lot of fun with art and…
Math can be overwhelming when you have kids at different grade levels in your homeschool. Sometimes it’s just hard because, as parents, we don’t feel confident teaching it. In addition, though it is hard to believe, others don’t enjoy teaching…
Are you in camp: “Yay! History is so much fun,” or “Ugh, history is so boring”? Whichever camp you’re in, Home School in the Woods is definitely a way to add fun to your homeschool history class. We’ve been using…