A few weeks ago I decided it was time to do another “link post” to share with my readers some of the sites that I look to and/or recommend for homeschooling information. You’ll find a variety of sites here ranging from blogs written by homeschoolers themselves to family-owned curriculum suppliers I’ve been buying from for more…
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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 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…
Making the Most of a Home School Conference
It’s that season again! Okay, I realize it’s nowhere near Christmas. And yes, we’re in the middle of March Madness season but I’m not talking about that either. I’m talking about home-school conference season. Over the next few months thousands upon thousands of home-schoolers will be flocking to conferences large and small. Some of the…
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 Math (Concepts)
Before I get into the specifics of teaching your child math I am going to philosophize here for a minute…or perhaps editorialize would be a better word. In any case, if you do not care to read the upcoming *editorial* feel free to jump down to where I get into the specifics of teaching math. In the meantime,…
Just In Case…
Just in case you missed any of this month’s posts…I thought I’d provide links to each of them AND a link to a website where I had the privilege of being featured last week: Sonlight: A Literature-Based Approach to Learning One Dad’s Homeschooling Philosophy: Work! Six Workbooks That Work A Primer on Restaurant Etiquette It’s Funny…
Sonlight: A Literature-Based Approach to Learning
I have never personally used Sonlight curriculum but everyone that I know who has used it has always told me how much they love it. In my quest to help you make informed choices concerning your home-schooling adventure I thought I would ask some home-schoolers who use Sonlight to tell me why they use…
How to Home-School: Eclectic Method
This is my sixth and final post on “Teaching Methods.” The eclectic method of home-schooling may seem self-explanatory, but I think it’s worth taking a look at since the vast majority of home-schoolers are using this method. While I have no hard data to support that statement, my experience of knowing home-schoolers for over twenty years…
How to Home-School: Traditional Methods
This is the first post of a six-part series on “Teaching Methods.” When we think of traditional methods of home-schooling, we are generally talking about the textbooks and workbooks that we all grew up with. There would be a textbook for each subject, maybe workbooks for reading comprehension or to work on specific math topics….