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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When I first began homeschooling I kept asking other home school mothers, “How many hours do you homeschool?” They all seemed reluctant to put a time on their day. Finally one confessed how much time she spent doing lessons and I was a little shocked to find out it wasn’t ...
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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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You are sitting around a table with some friends who have children in school. They are raving (or complaining or comparing) about their child’s new class teachers. They talk about the choir, craft and sports teachers that are at the school. And then one of them turns to you and ...
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Holidays can sometimes seem more exhausting than school term. But it’s important to replenish ourselves for the next season of teaching.
Each month can make us feel a little more behind in our duties and instead of focusing on our progress we begin to become stressed about our lack ...
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Was I practising Charlotte Mason unschooling ?
In the primary years, we would get most of our work done by lunchtime. Even though our academic goals were achieved I felt guilty that I wasn’t doing enough school work. I knew schools still had three more hours of work for their students. What was I meant to do ...
Keep Reading →Homeschool goal setting is good when you begin with the end in mind. It helps you plan with imagination and helps you look for possibilities.
I like to be intentional in my homeschool goal setting. I usually plan for a few years and I know where I am going based on where ...
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