There’s a worksheet on the table. It asks him to colour the correct answer. He circles it instead, and marks the wrong ones with a cross. According to the worksheet, he’s getting everything wrong. According to the worksheet, he hasn’t done a single question correctly. But watch what he’s actually doing: he’s looking at each…
Weekley folders help homeschooled kids become autonomous leaners: Learning to manage their time, meet deadlines, and find a way of learning that makes them happy.
Planning our homeschool curriculum used to lead to chaos within weeks. I’d start every term with a calendar full of things we needed to get through and a timetable rigid enough to guarantee we’d feel behind by week two. All it took was one lesson that was supposed to take forty minutes actually taking an…
You don’t need to know how to code to start teaching it. Here’s a practical guide to computer literacy and coding in home-ed, from the basics upward.
…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?
Home-ed lesson planning gets easier once you know what kind of lesson you’re planning. Here’s the framework we use.
Screen time is one of those phrases that arrives pre-loaded with guilt, as if watching television is something a well-run homeschool family would be trying to minimise rather than use. We don’t approach it that way. TV in our house is a teaching resource — imperfect, variable in quality, and requiring some curation — but…
Every child can ‘succeed’ – even if success is redefined away from academics. Academic building blocks give a guideline to help children succeed at their own pace
Maths is the subject that comes up most often when home-educating parents talk about what they find hard. Whether you’re confident with numbers or not, at some point you’ll probably need to reach beyond yourself for support — a better explanation, a different approach, a resource that does the teaching so you don’t have to….
The EBacc isn’t compulsory. But as a planning framework for home education, it’s more useful than it first sounds. Here’s how we use it.