Today I am offering some tips that have been gleaned from my 20+ years of homeschooling. I hope that you will find that applying one (or more!) of these tips helps your homeschool day go a little more smoothly! #1 – Don’t get into schoolwork when you have somewhere to go or are otherwise in a…
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How To Find Low-Cost (and Free!) Music Lesson Resources Online
The following is a guest post by Aaron Schulman. Aaron and his wife Jen are homeschooling parents. Aaron has been an avid guitar player, teacher, writer and enthusiast since 1990, writing and maintaining several acoustic guitar reviews on his site, Strumviews.com to help people find the right guitar for their purposes. He has recently written a…
The Homeschooler’s Guide To Writing A Research Paper
The “three R’s” is not just a clever educational slogan. The three R’s should be the foundation of your homeschool program. The reality is that if you give your child a solid grounding in mathematics (including algebra, trigonometry, etc.) and a proficiency in reading and composition, whatever else you do is not particularly all that…
Homeschooling Your High-Schooler
I have a confession to make: when I homeschooled my oldest child – and only daughter – I, like many homeschoolers, found the prospect of homeschooling a high-schooler to be very daunting. Now keep in mind that when I started homeschooling in 1990 it was still very much a fledgling movement. So by the time…
How To: Teach P.E.
Physical education is an important part of your curriculum not necessarily to satisfy state requirements, though that may be necessary, but its importance really comes down to your responsibility as a parent to help your child develop habits to keep fit. And if you are not fit yourself, it is a good excuse to make…
How To: Teach the Fine Arts
There are so many ways to teach your children about the Fine Arts! In this post I am going to tell you about the activities and resources I have used with my own children and offer tips to help you introduce your children to the arts as well. For the sake of clarity, when I…
How To: Teach Social Science, Part 3 (Economics and Political Science)
Economics and Political Science are topics that you should add to your high school curriculum to some extent, depending on your child’s interests and your own priorities. I am going to deal first with Economics and then Political Science and I will be sharing some very helpful and practical resources so be sure to read…
How To: Teach Social Science, Part 2 (History)
I love history. As a matter of fact, I am working on (finally!) finishing my Bachelor’s degree and while I am majoring in English Literature, I am minoring in History. Going through school I was fortunate enough to have some great history teachers. However, when I first attended college over 30 years ago (ouch!), I…
How To: Teach Social Science, Part 1 (Geography)
There are a number of disciplines that fall under the heading of “social sciences” but I am going to focus on the ones that would most commonly be taught in a home-school curriuculum: history, geography, economics and political science. Some may wonder why I would choose to use the term “social sciences” rather than just…
How To: Teach Science
I am anti-textbook. Well, not really. I use them throughout my children’s schooling for math, and for reading up until 6th grade. But for most other subjects I feel you can do better without textbooks. I started home-schooling in 1990 with my oldest child (my only daughter). She was in first grade. It only took…
