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Have you discovered the pure gorgeousness of Pinterest? If not, you must hop on over there and sign up. Actually, be sure to wait until you have an hour to spare. In short, Pinterest is a bookmarking system. However, instead of...

Planning for an Unschooling Year

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The 23 Day Back to (HOME)School Planner

It’s Back to Homeschool time! And whether this is your first year homeschooling or your twentieth, back to school time generally means it’s time for planning and shopping for books and supplies. But what about that thing...

Learning Styles: The Basics Part Two

This is the second in a series about learning styles. You can read the first part here: Learning Styles: The Basics. Today we are going beyond the basic learning styles of Visual, Auditory, Read/Write, and Kinesthetic/Tactile...

Availability and its Effect on Learning

As I was pondering what to write for a post this month, my five-year-old sat on the floor nearby playing with some frozen orange juice lids that I had made into math manipulatives. He set them up from 0 to 9 going one way,...

Planners: Sometimes Simpler is Better

Well, it’s that time of year, isn’t it? When the new planners arrive and we begin to put things together for whenever schooling will begin again. Independent of whether people school year round or not, somehow, the...

How to Create an Overcommitment-Proof School Year Schedule

Ssshhhh! Don’t anyone tell my husband the topic of this month’s post or else he might make me read and apply it! We might as well get my confession out of the way right off the bat: I have issues with scheduling. And...

“Not” Back to School Blog Hop: Curriculum Week

After hours and hours of research, consultation, lists and that big ol’ investment… what did you finally decide for your curriculum? Please share your choices – by age (or grade) if possible. There is no wrong or right way...

3rd Annual Not Back-to-School Blog Hop

It’s that time of year. All the stores are shouting: BACK TO SCHOOL. But for many of us, it’s “school as usual.” Not anymore! Time for some fanfare! This is our 3rd annual Not Back-to-School Blog Hop. Originally...

Learning Styles: The Basics

There’s one lesson I learned right away when we first began homeschooling – not everyone learns the same way. Why this shocked me, I don’t know. I am so glad that I learned it early on in our homeschool...