Offering homeschooled students choices
Lesson Choices If you put students in charge of setting lesson objectives they’ll be instantly more engaged with the lesson. Whether it’s offering two different styles of worksheets, the choice...
Mystery of Matter: Search for the Elements
Sometimes you stumble upon a curriculum resource that seems too good to be true but actually is. Mystery of Matter: Search for the Elements is one of those resources. This...
Reading books for kids aged 8-12
Great books to read with 8-12 year olds! Adventure, mystery, magic and fun!
Audiobooks for Home Education – Autumn 2022
Audiobooks are fantastic teaching material for home education. Easy to use in a variety of lesson formats, audiobooks are easily accessible lesson content to use at home or on the...
Structured Unschooling
...the best homeschool curriculum is the one that fits best now.
If you're feeling overwhelmed, take a step back, a day 'off' from school. Relax and enjoy your children. What do you do?
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.
Using Documentaries in Home-Ed Lessons
Why use documentaries in home-ed lessons? Encouraging homeschoolers to sit down and watch TV sounds counterproductive but if what they’re watching is entertaining enough to pass as TV, if the...