Sometimes you see something and it just makes you want to give it to someone – that friend – that child – who will appreciate the absolute weirdness but still be excited to get it. They may not even think it is weird and exclaim, “How did you know! That’s exactly what I wanted.”
And they will even ...
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 equipment, your children can quickly lose interest and you find yourself completing the experiment ...
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We are looking forward to welcoming you to our first My Homeschool Seminar at Golden Grove, Sydney on Saturday June 1st!
I have been to a number of get-togethers where the majority of homeschooling mums became the most animated when the topic of planning was raised. Whether you love it (and your monthly menu plan is laminated and stuck on the fridge) or whether you groan that you never seem to be ready for anything, planning is ...
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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 start to see that homeschooling really does work. It’s ...
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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 stop me stressing ...
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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 had actually done I realised that I had made progress. ...
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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 board of studies syllabus and content. “
I have often suggested that you can use ...
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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 home is their kids hate school and the parents are worried there will be ...
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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 with anxiety as I tried to calmly explain a math concept to one child.
I was multitasking ...
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Last year I read Cindy Rollin’s book Mere Motherhood. I loved reading her story as she muddled through her journey working out her homeschool groove. She coined a phrase which has become a buzz word in homeschool circles these days – Morning Time.
Simply put, Morning Time is spending time each day doing a handful of ...
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