by Michelle | Feb 24, 2020 | Charlotte Mason, Mother's Encouragement, Teaching Methods
I’m Not A Charlotte Mason Purist I’ve never thought of myself as a Charlotte Mason purist but I was churning on the inside. My friend had just messaged me telling me to jump online to defend myself because I was being criticised for not being a real Charlotte Mason...
by Michelle | Feb 11, 2020 | Charlotte Mason, Mother's Encouragement, Teaching Methods
Have you ever heard someone say homeschool teachers need training? Do you agree! I certainly do. But they don’t need to learn how to be a school teacher. The first time we hit advanced high school math, I decided I wasn’t qualified to teach homeschool...
by Michelle | Feb 5, 2020 | Fun Lesson Ideas, Teaching Methods
Co Learning With Your Kids – Win Win Why Co Learning Helps Your Homeschool When I first embarked on this journey of homeschooling I knew there was a lot I didn’t know. I skimmed through school very middle of the road. School was a good opportunity to...
by Michelle | Jun 18, 2019 | Fun Lesson Ideas, Science and Nature, Teaching Methods
Making Science Fun For You & Your Child Science experiments are good in theory but actually doing them can be a messy time-consuming affair and sometimes a failure. Little hands love the idea but if you are fiddling about trying to make it work, or find the right...
by Michelle | May 1, 2019 | Highschool, Mother's Encouragement
Hopes And Dreams When you first start out homeschooling, your hopes are all just dreams. You want to do so much for your kids and you hope that where you want to go, is where you will actually end up. Then as the years tick on, and you pass each new milestone, you...
by MR Morrow | Jan 13, 2019 | Homeschool Planning & Organization, Teaching Methods
A Survey On How Many Hours Do You Homeschool? At our home school group we did a survey of days mums spent on formal lessons and 13 out of 14 mums only did it 4 days per week. I have set up a simple routine in my home. It is the perfect mix for me. A little routine to...
by Michelle | Jan 1, 2019 | Charlotte Mason, Homeschool Planning & Organization
In my early years as a home educator I liked to have detailed homeschool plans and colour coded timetables. But after a few months, I’d be back at the computer revising my plans. I felt I’d failed. However as each year closed and I looked back at what I...
by Michelle | Oct 9, 2018 | Homeschool Planning & Organization, Homeschooling Australia
Is the NESA Syllabus different from the Australian Curriculum? BOSTES has changed its name to NESA If you are getting registered to homeschool in NSW then you know that the NESA Home Schooling package requires your educational program to be “based on the relevant...
by Michelle | Feb 22, 2018 | Highschool, Mother's Encouragement, Teaching Methods
There is a lot of terrible advice for new home schoolers who find themselves unexpectedly homeschooling. Many parents of tweens and teens are pulling their kids out of school because their children are having some sort of trouble. Their motivation for bringing them...
by Michelle | Feb 13, 2018 | Homeschool Planning & Organization, Special Needs, Teaching Methods
Homeschooling multiple children was hard work. This is a picture of the first year I was teaching all four at the same time. Back in those days homeschooling multiple kids went like this. I was trying to be patient. I was pretending that my stomach wasn’t churning...
