Homeschool Classroom: Creating an environment for learning
You don’t need a homeschool classroom to successfully home educate, but creating an environment that encourages learning is the key to success for home learners. What does that look like...
A Weekly Home-Ed Folder
Weekley folders help homeschooled kids become autonomous leaners: Learning to manage their time, meet deadlines, and find a way of learning that makes them happy.
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 Poetry
Reading poetry is a fantastic way for pupils to develop reading-aloud skills and reading fluency. As an additional benefit to the home educator, lots of poems are short, making it...
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
Integrating AI into a Home-Ed Curriculum
If your homeschooled children are using any online platform for learning – Duolingo/IXL/Reading Eggs, etc – they’re already using AI platforms: Ed-tech uses AI to program adaptive learning platforms that...
Read-Aloud Lesson Time
Adding a regular reading aloud time into a homeschool timetable has numerous advantages.
What does “Tailoring Education to the Child” Actually Mean?
When we talk about home education, we talk about how the education can be tailored to the child but what does that actually mean?! Well, it means that.. 1) You...
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 = parents teaching their children and many parents who believe home education might be the best schooling model for their child are...
When Maths (or any subject) 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...