A Weekly Home-Ed Folder
One of the benefits of home education is that children are able to learn how to manage their time and to choose how they spend their days – within reason....
Home Education and Homeschooling: What’s the Difference?
Home Education and Homeschooling – aren’t they one and the same?? Reading about home education can be as complicated as actually educating at home! The terminology of home education varies...
Lego as a Teaching Tool for Home-Ed
The ways to use Lego in homeschool lessons are limitless. Lego can be used to teach a wide range of skills, can be used with all age groups, and building...
Home-Ed Study Weeks
Study weeks are similar to the idea of 'deschooling'; the process of taking a break from formalised teaching/learning. Deschooling is intended to re-spark a joy for learning and study weeks work the same.
Writing a Homeschool Lesson Plan
Lesson planning can be an overwhelming thought when you’re starting homeschooling. You might know what you need to teach, but how to teach it..isn’t that something teachers train for years...
A Digitally Organised Homeschool
When my home learners read this post they’ll laugh. My desktop is a chaotic mass of screenshots and downloads, the paper filing system is even worse chaos. Organisation of the...
Academic Building Blocks
Every child can 'succeed' - even if success is redefined away from academics. Academic building blocks give a guideline to help children succeed at their own pace
How to teach a home-ed lesson
There’s a big difference between planning a lesson and teaching one. Lesson plans are more of a guide for you, the educator, to move your pupils towards the lesson’s objective:...
Home Educating Without Being Your Child’s Teacher
It’s a perpetuated myth that successful home education means parents teaching their children and that those parents will be qualified teachers. Many parents who believe home education might be the...
When Maths Is Tricky
outsourcing difficult subjects can be the best decision for a homeschool - if maths is tricky, this is what we did!
10 Great Read-Aloud Books for Toddlers
Reading books with toddlers is a great bonding experience for parent-child and sets the groundwork for those toddlers becoming children who love to read! 1) Handa’s Surprise Handa takes a...
How to reset a homeschool day
Home educating your children is a glorious adventure and like all adventures, it comes with ups and downs. Some days – because a kid’s out of sorts, or a lesson...
Creating an environment for learning
Creating an environment that encourages learning is the key to success for home learners. What does that look like for your child? To learn, we need to feel relaxed, safe,...
Writing Lessons for Home Education
Whatever else is on our homeschool schedule for the day, daily reading and writing practice is a non-negotiable. Reading and writing are the keys to literacy, and no matter which...
Tips for Left-Handed Homeschoolers
Left-handed learners often find writing more of a struggle than right-handed peers. Holding a pencil and writing can be uncomfortable, words smudge easier and it can be hard for learners...
AI and Home Education
Artificial Intelligence is fast evolving, ever-changing and nobody yet knows quite what any of the software can really do or what will come out tomorrow..it’s exciting. Hence, it’s perfect for...