Autumn is a lovely time to start a year long tree study. We begin our homeschool nature study on autumn leaves by watching the leaves slowly change colour and learning about why that happens. Once all the leaves have dropped and revealed the tree trunk and branches its offers us a chance to study the …
We have had some wonderful thunderstorms in Cheshire this summer but we certainly have not had as much rain as we would have liked. In some areas of the UK we already have hosepipe bans and this seems to be a recurrent theme lately. I thought that I would pull a post from my homeschool …
Its summer and what better time is there to study insects in our homeschool nature study! They are in abundance right now so I thought I would pull a post from our homeschool nature study archives for you to enjoy. This post is from 2012 when we went on an insect hunt. I hope you …
When I told the girls that we were going to be looking at the Oak tree for our homeschool nature study outdoor hour challenge – they were really pleased. Our introduction to this challenge was done with some friends at our Friday co-op. ‘Although from two to three hundred years is the average age of …
Welcome back to the 2nd in my mini-series on creating a Homeschool plan. If you have missed the first post in the series then you can hop over and read more on developing a plan and setting a course for your high school. There are plenty of posts out there on homes educating in general …
As Christian keepers of the home I think it is important to create a home that reflects God’s love, joy, peace and creation. This is done with purpose and sometimes planning. It’s a way of bringing to the attention of those who live in our homes the simple beauties of the year that can be …
Homeschooling highschool children in the UK was a choice not many make and taking the American SAT path while maintaining our Charlotte Mason ethos rather than the UK’s A-Level program most certainly put us on a road that very few UK home educators had travelled. However, we stuck with what suited our children most and …
I am a veteran homeschooling mum with two homeschool graduates and there are a few things I wish I had known as we moved through our highschooling homeschool years. One of those things is tackling the fear that comes with homeschooling through high school. I want to speak about guarding your hearts against allowing fear …
Choosing to homeschool our children was the best decision we have ever made. It has been a journey of excitement lots of joyful memories and experiences, discovery, bonding, learning and growing. It has also been a journey peppered with learning and character challenges, exhaustion, tears and doubt. This comes with the territory and anyone who tries …
We are about to jump straight into February, the month of love! There is so much to love about February…oh I know that in your head you are thinking that I must be mad. After all, the weather is still cold, we are more likley to get snow than the warmer temps we are so …
