Well goodness me…here I am talking for nearly an hour about a handful of pencils. Granted these pencils are soooo talk worthy!! But because they are brand new to me, I did give occasional wrong ...Read More
There’s always excitement when I put together a new unit. It’s the same excitement you might feel at the start of the new homeschool year. I love looking for new resources and assembling a...Read More
The five minute version of this lesson planning video is also available if you want a quick overview of how I lesson plan for a unit study or main lesson block. If you want the real time, full-of-dist...Read More
It’s that time of year! It’s time to clean out the homeschool room and make room for new material and new inspiration. Aside from the more laborious tasks of cleaning and dusting, purging ...Read More
I believe most learning and academic issues will work themselves out in time, but there are a few things I noticed in our homeschool that didn’t and rather needed intervention. While these are t...Read More
The following post was an email I wrote to my homeschool group. I wrote it in August of 2010. After attending the Waldorf homeschool conference in Santa Cruz this summer [July 2010], my understanding ...Read More
There are many ways to take classes in high school from forming your own, buying a curriculum, taking online classes to taking community college classes. Today I’m sharing our experience with co...Read More
HOW TO DO A UNIT STUDY | ANCIENT GREECE It’s time to put together another unit and this time it’s Ancient Greece. We already started out with materials for this unit, but over the last few...Read More
https://youtu.be/5800MlHkcDw Want to know the best state to homeschool in? I stand behind California’s options for homeschoolers specifically and schooling in general. Though there isn’t s...Read More
https://youtu.be/GOEDlXIhZL4 The longer you’ve been doing this, the more mistakes you accumulate. I’ve had too many to count, so I’m going to share two regrets and one success. Want ...Read More