Curriculum, planning, and encouragement for your homeschooling journey
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 …
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 …
Hello my lovely friends, I hope that your year is off to a GREAT start! I wanted to pop in and have a little chat about homeschooling. As you know we have completed our homeschool journey. Both our daughters are now studying at university after having graduated from our homeschool. One took the American SAT …
Throughout our homeschooling, I have always had a heart for encouraging other homeschool mums on their journey. I am blessed to be able to walk with someone who is considering homeschooling, or those who are struggling and need a bit of guidance. The Lord has brought a few women into my life whom I have …
What homeschool mom doesn’t love a good homeschool planner? Ask we started back at our lessons I thought you may like to look through the pages of my own homeschool planner. This year I am using The Ultimate Homeschool Planner by Debra Bell. I started our homeschooling years (The first five or six in fact) …
It is important to take time every so often for homeschooling moms to have reset. And why is that? because being a homeschooling mom means that you are everything to everyone. You set the tone of your home, your homeschool and your days. If you are frazzled and unhappy then changes are your home will …
We’ve been homeschooling using the Charlotte Mason philosophy in our homeschool for many years. Everything about her philosophy was just “right”. I totally fell in love with her living books, her rigorous yet gentle approach to lessons. I believe totally in the ‘Science of Relations’, in her statement that ‘Children are persons’ and in her …
Oh dear! This morning some members of our household woke up a wee but grumpy! I decided right then and there that we were going to take today and flip it on it’s head a little – for the sake of peace and harmony. As we are expecting similar weather patterns today as yesterday, (and …
