Homeschoolers are Rarely at Home.

There is a common misconception out their that homeschoolers spend their days sitting in their homes with one of their parents doing workbooks and literally schooling at home.  I’m sure that they are out there those who subscribe to this extreme version of homeschooling and bring the classroom home but have yet to meet anyone doing this.  The…

5 Great Resources for Printable Homeschooling Materials.

As I’ve talked about on here before we tend to be fairly unstructured and lean more toward the unschooling, life learning side of things but we do have binders set aside for when our kids are interested in doing some workbooks or worksheets.  They love this type of activity so it’s usually never a struggle….

Friday Finds – Free Reading Resources for Homeschooling

I am always on the lookout for good reading resources for my kids.  In fact I’m always on the lookout for free high quality learning materials of any kind to use with my kids. This week I found some great ones, in addition to the free educational materials from NASA that I posted earlier this…

Wordless Wednesday – Window White Board

Homeschooling “lecture” during dinner., originally uploaded by HarmonicMama.

Free Homeschooling Materials from Nasa

Image: amnh.org Not all homechoolers realize that many of the educational resources that are out there for teachers are also available to homeschoolers.  A while back NASA and the American Museum of Natural History were giving away free copies of the Journey to the Stars DVD and educator guide to teachers so I signed up to get…

The Kids Aren’t All Right. ‘Race to Nowhere’ – Movie Review

Race to Nowhere exposes the dark side of America’s achievement culture and its harmful effects on our children.  I had an opportunity to attend a screening of this film this week.  Overall it was a sad tale of the stress and overwhelming pressure today’s youth is under.  It exposes a school system in which neither educators nor students are truly thriving but just getting by, or…

Homeschooling and Socialization

[ad name=”Above Content”] I was recently asked by a mom considering homeschooling about socialization and she was concerned that her kids would be missing out on social experiences if they weren’t in school.  There is a common misconception that homeschoolers are unsocialized and don’t know how to interact with others and their peers since.  It’s…

How to (Not) Worry About Homeschooling

[ad name=”Above Content”] As a family we definitely have a more unschooling bend to us and my husband and I are really free form with the girls education.  That being said our girls LOVE workbooks and so do we.  I attribute this to the fact that no one has ever told them that workbooks aren’t…

Electricity, Electricity

[ad name=”Amazon Toy Banner”] As a homeschooling parent, I’m constantly looking for fun and exciting things to do with my girls. Just recently I was introduced to snap circuits. Snap circuits allow you to create real functioning electrical systems without soldering etc… They use snaps, resembling those on a jacket, and snap together. The book…

Homeschooling

So we are planning on homeschooling the girls and since S.I. would be in kindergarten this year I thought it best to start looking at kindergarten curriculums and seeing what it is that she would be learning in conventional school this year. I’m happy to see that some f the things she would be learning…