Home School Co-ops
What is a home school co-op? For the home school parent or student who feels all alone, a home school organization can be a great place to plug in. There are two very different choices available to you. One type of group is a home school support group or association. An association is a loose [...]
Homeschooling Tips For Teaching a Foreign Language
The reasons parents choose to homeschool vary from wanting more control over their children’s education to worries about safety and morality in public schools. More parents are making this commitment to their children’s educations every year. In 2007, a survey by the U.S. Department of Education showed a 2.9 percent of children in the United [...]
Thanksgiving Unit Study
A Thanksgiving unit study is a great way to keep an official education record for your home school during a holiday week. During the preparation week prior to a celebration, it is easy to train the next generation to carry on our traditions by including them in all we do. Break down what might only [...]
Homeschool Unit Studies
The concept of homeschool unit studies seems to be foreign to many friends and family, and even to traditional teachers, so here’s my explanation and thoughts on this educational process. Anything of interest can be turned into a unit study: insects, fire trucks, the solar system, the revolutionary war or the favorite toy of the [...]
Homeschoolers can Help Public Schools with AYP
In August, I received a call from the Superintendent of the Haines Borough School District (HBSD). The Alaska Department of Education (AKDOE) was evaluating average yearly progress (AYP) for schools around the state for No Child Left Behind, and they had a problem with my daughter, Aly’s enrollment status. When we began unschooling Aly on [...]
Homeschool Math in the Mud
Today’s homeschool math lessons can most certainly look like educational lessons from the self-reliant pioneers of the past. Just as pioneers needed mathematics in their daily activities to become self-reliant, those of us who look forward toward our own uncertainties have many of the same desires for information. If pioneers and the generations since the [...]
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