Are Songs Poetry?
Are Songs Poetry? A home-ed lesson
You don’t need a teaching qualification to home educate — but you do need to think differently about what teaching actually is. This section covers the practical side: how to plan and run lessons, how to handle reluctant learners, how to teach core subjects without a textbook, and how to build independence gradually so it’s not all on you. From someone who’s been in the classroom at the kitchen table for a decade.
Are Songs Poetry? A home-ed lesson
Word games are fun, no-pressure ways to improve vocabulary and language pattern recognition. How to make an English lesson from Wordle..
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 activities can be integrated into most subjects. Lego is a brilliantly versatile toy that in home-ed becomes a tool. Skills taught by using Lego Following…
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 easy to slot poetry reading into a daily homeschool routine. Poetry as a lesson subject encourages engagement with language in a way prose doesn’t; poetry…
Using a kid’s questions to drive lessons is an easy way to get them engaged with learning. There’s no such thing as a silly question and you never know what path of learning one answer might lead them on.
Music is a powerful resource for home-educators. Music can be taught as a subject, used as a teaching aid or act as a lesson resource.
Google their questions! It takes seconds and can send them (and you) down rabbit holes of learning.
Gardening is a brilliant subject to include in a homeschool curriculum (rocks/soil composition/photosynthesis/etc)
Museum websites are some of the best free home-ed resources available. Here’s how to use them well — and which ones to start with.
for home-educated students, the internet allows them to access knowledge independently of a teacher; to become self-led learners. And yet, giving children unsupervised access to the internet isn’t a good idea.
So how do you teach homeschoolers about safe surfing while still facilitating access to the educational resources available online?