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Summer Resource Guide

Looking for fun summer activities for your homeschool? Want to keep learning but keep it fun? Here's your solution!

Super Teacher Worksheets: A Recipe for Homeschool Success

Super Teacher Worksheets has a growing presence in the education community for its vast collection of quality educational printables and activities. If you're looking to spice up your homeschool curriculum with new printable resources, then discover the wonderful ingredients Super Teacher Worksheets has to offer.

6 Supplemental Income Ideas for Homeschool Parents

  6 Supplemental Income Ideas for Homeschool Parents To the family that chooses to live on a single salary in order to homeschool, a supplemental income that can be earned from home may sound too good to be true, but it doesn’t have to be. By tapping into your God-given talents, you can develop an […]

Homeschooling Flexibility

  When we ask our Calvert Families about their favorite aspects of homeschooling, one item that is always at the top of the list is FLEXIBILITY. This is especially true for parents who have experienced the world of public or private schooling. While the flexibility of homeschooling can be an adjustment for some, most homeschooling […]

Five Ways to Evaluate a Math Program

  #1: Effectiveness Many math programs might look exciting…but the main question you should ask is, are they effective? Do kids who use the program understand math better than the kids that didn’t use this program? Unfortunately, many education companies don’t have scientific data to back up their claims. Ask them for studies showing the […]

Top 10 Choices of Higher Education

  Top 10 Choices of Higher Education Institutions in the World Every year, an organization known as Quacquarelli Symonds (QS), considered to have the most reputable and reliable university ranking system, rates universities from around the world based upon a number of factors. It ranks in several categories, such as by academic discipline and by […]

Homeschooling and College Admissions

Homeschooling and College Admissions – a survey for homeschoolers AND for colleges! Genius!! My husband and I made the decision to homeschool our two sons in the middle of their 1st and 4th-grade years. It was the end of January, the testing season was about to begin again, and we decided enough was enough – […]

Integrating Math Into Other Subjects

  Math is the least liked subject for many homeschool parents and children. It can be scary, boring and frustrating. But math doesn’t have to be any of these things. Research has shown that children learn best and better understand what they are learning about when they can make connections with previous learning or with […]

5 Reasons to Use Weekly Thematic Units

By developing and using weekly thematic units, you can add fascinating topics to required subjects–thus making your homeschool classroom much more interesting and fun–for you and your students. For example, you might determine that your weekly theme is going to be rainbows. Your math manipulatives could be arranged in rainbow order. The books you read […]