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...
Gardening as part of a curriculum
Gardening is a brilliant subject to include in a homeschool curriculum (rocks/soil composition/photosynthesis/etc)
Visiting Museums from Home
Museums provide fantastic online resources for learning, whether it’s taking a virtual school trip or using the museum’s resources to create and support home-ed lessons. Thanks to a proactive move...
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...
What to include in a school project?
Setting project-based school work allows home educators to give home-ed pupils open-ended studies of learning: A long-term unit study.
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.
Safe Surfing
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?