Highchair Games
If you’re home-educating siblings, keeping little ones occupied while homeschooling big ones can be tricky. Activities that can be done at a table or in a highchair make little ones...
Painting with Toddlers
Home-educating with younger siblings around can be complicated! Painting is a good activity to occupy little hands and minds, and keeps toddlers (relatively) quiet so older siblings can concentrate.
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...
Homeschool Science: Resources for Home-Ed Classrooms
When it comes to ‘science’ as an academic subject, a child’s enthusiastic desire to seek wonder is a teacher’s best friend and science is all about wonder! Without curiosity, science...
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...
How many strings does a piano have?
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 in a Home-Ed Classroom
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.
The Bayeux Tapestry and Reading Museum
I stumbled across Reading Museum when googling Bayeux Tapestry resources. The depth of information provided makes the exhibits in the online museum perhaps more accessible than a visit to the...