A Weekly Home-Ed Folder
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.
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Teaching Your Teenager to Write AI Prompts (And Why It’s Worth Doing Properly)
AI prompt writing is one of the first AI skills to teach your teenagers: here’s how we do it.
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How to use homeschooler’s questions to plan lessons
Google their questions! It takes seconds and can send them (and you) down rabbit holes of learning.
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Offering homeschooled students choices
There’s a version of this principle that sounds like giving up, let the homeschooler choose everything, follow their every interest, never ask them to do anything they don’t want to do. That’s not what we do, and it’s not what I’m describing here. (And I’m not talking about unschooling either.) What I’m describing is more…
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Learning for a Purpose (Explaining Curriculum to Home-Learners)
In practice, you don’t always need a detailed curriculum to begin. What matters more, especially at the start, is whether the learning feels purposeful.
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Skill, Topic, Project: A Simple Framework for Planning Home-Ed Lessons
Home-ed lesson planning gets easier once you know what kind of lesson you’re planning. Here’s the framework we use.
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TV as a Teaching Tool
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…
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Using Audiobooks in Home Education
Reading and listening aren’t the same thing. That’s worth saying upfront, because audiobooks sometimes get dismissed as a shortcut — or quietly treated as cheating — when they’re actually doing something different and genuinely useful. The purpose of reading is comprehension: absorbing what someone else wrote and making sense of it. Audiobooks do that. What…
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Do You Actually Need to Write Lesson Plans?
Lesson planning can be an overwhelming thought when you’re starting homeschooling. You might know what you need to teach, but how to teach it..isn’t that something teachers train for years to learn? Well, yes. But like every aspect of home education, teaching your child is very different to teaching a class full of pupils. Lesson…
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How to Turn Anything into a Homeschool Lesson
Turn any topic into a homeschool lesson! Follow homeschooler’s interest and make lessons fun, effective, engaging.
