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What We Learn From Animals While World Schooling
There are all sorts of educational benefits to learning about animals by handling and playing with them directly, but really, it’s just a lot a fun. We love watching the kids’ faces light…
8 Steps to an Awesome Research Paper
This post is sponsored by Time4Writing. Not the dreaded research paper! You’ve just assigned your high school homeschooler a research paper, and you can’t understand all the drama that’s…
Why Gardening is Perfect for Homeschool Kids
I had been on the fence for a while about introducing gardening to my kids. Sometimes I thought that they were too young for it, other times I thought about the dirt and laundry. The past year,…
How to Create the Optimal Homeschool Environment for Long-Term Learning
A year ago, everyone was hopping on the homeschooling bandwagon. Quarantines and school cancelations sent millions of students into the homeschool world practically overnight. Now that schools…
Individualized Instruction Helps One Mom Cater to the Needs of Many
This post is sponsored by Time4Learning. Before the pandemic, it was business as usual for Boca Raton resident Nikki Warris. Her two daughters, 5-year-old Natalie and 8-year-old Lexi were…
A Dozen Books That Make Us Human
What does it mean to be human? It’s a deep question but the “human condition is the characteristics, key events, and situations which compose the essentials of human existence, such as birth,…
Win a Free Film Course
This post is sponsored by Film School 4 Teens. When I was in 8th grade, we were required to take 3 months of wood shop, 3 months of metal shop and 3 months of home economics (which is a strange…
Tips For Supplementing Your Homeschool Program
This post is sponsored by Kumon. Homeschooling your children is probably a decision that didn’t come without consideration. When it was time to decide on a curriculum, you likely conducted…
Driving Safety Tips for Teens and First Time Drivers – 2021 Guide
Guest post by Tim Waldenback If your teen participates in team sports or plays an instrument, remember how long it took for him or her to play with skill? The same is true for driving.…
How to Create an Official Transcript with Accurate Homeschool Grades
Guest post by Lee Binz, The HomeScholar Parents of high school students need to create records that accurately reflect their student, and it can be pretty intimidating at first. You want the…