Surviving At Home

With the trend of homeschooling rising every year over the past decade, de-schooling is popping up more and more. De-schooling is the process of “pausing” after years of structured traditional school in a public or private school. It’s a process of recovery and transition from traditional classroom or private school setting to homeschooling. Like most families switching from public school to homeschool, it’s a lifestyle change, an emotional, physical and intellectual change. Whether your child is kindergarten age or high…

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Over the past decade, homeschooling has increased dramatically. While COVID was an influential and often very challenging time for families, it also made something painfully clear: public schools were failing. Many families chose to homeschool because they had more forced proximity to their children’s education. From that, a beautiful revelation and upheaval was born. A change was initiated. Perhaps you are one of the thousands of families who continued to homeschool long after COVID ended. Watch the “unprecedented surge” of…

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Creating a colorful profile collage was an idea I thought of from previous experience in Art Club during my high school years. However, what I envisioned and what occurred were two very different things. But I share this because homeschooling and teaching is a journey, not a one and done. It’s about taking on challenges and working with them. What I envisioned… What actually occurred… So while this is the first stage to my collage art experiment with three boys,…

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Free printables by subject that we have found or created. Here are some of our quick favorites to use in your everyday homeschool… We have collected websites and free printables over the course of many years in homeschooling. As many homeschooling families do, we find our favorites and try to keep them organized in one place. This list will be a working list since we are always finding more resources and ideas as we teach. Reading Freebies For our reading…

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