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…
Music in a Home-Ed Classroom
Let us read, and let us dance; these two amusements will never do harm to the world. Voltaire Music is a powerful resource for home-educators. Music can be taught as…
How to use homeschooler’s questions to plan lessons
Google the questions homeschoolers ask! It takes seconds and can send them (and you) down rabbit holes of learning. Learning how to research traditionally, using reference books and talking to…
Lesson Planning: Joy of Museums
Joy of Museums isn't just a great site for finding museums to visit as virtual school trips, it's a fantastic homeschool resource. The website fantastic pages like this Ancient and…
The National History Museum (London)
The website of the London National History Museum is an incredible resource for home educators. It's a website that's as easy to navigate around as a museum is to walk…
Homeschool Lesson Objectives
Is this a skill, topic or project-based lesson? Lesson planning for homeschool starts with a lesson objective - a purpose to the lesson. The learning objective may be to teach/practice…
TV as a Teaching Tool
Screen time is one of the most contentious phrases when it comes not just to education but to parenting in general. How much is too much? Will TV rot their…
Using Audiobooks in Home Education
The purpose of writing is to transfer thoughts, stories or information via words to someone else. Once written on paper and passed to us, we call the process of absorbing…
Homeschool Supplies
It is very easy to get carried away shopping for homeschool essentials! But the truth is, you don't actually need a lot of supplies to homeschool efficiently. Books, writing materials,…
Virtual School Trips
There is nothing to compare with the experience of physically visiting galleries and museums with your homeschooled children, but sometimes it's just not possible. If you aren’t able to visit…
