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…
Word games are fun, no-pressure ways to improve vocabulary and language pattern recognition. How to make an English lesson from Wordle..
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.
Home-ed projects combine the student’s desire for interest-led learning with a parent’s need to structure their learning.
Turn any topic into a homeschool lesson! Follow homeschooler’s interest and make lessons fun, effective, engaging.
Chess is a game. It’s a hobby, not school…except that it isn’t, really. To play chess requires learning the pieces and the rules, thinking logically, planning strategies, applying pattern recognition, practising memorisation, and understanding what it means to lose graciously. You could spend a term on chess and cover skills that feed every other subject…