One fun thing about homeschooling is "fixing" aspects of our own education we didn't like. Think coding should be a school subject? Add it! Believe students should spend more time outside? Get out there! I knew when we started homeschooling that I wanted to add a second language right away. … [Read more...]
Getting Started Homeschooling
Maybe you've thought about homeschooling for a while, or maybe the option has just hit you in the face for some reason. You know that you have what it takes to homeschool, but the "how" is still pretty foggy. First, take a deep breath. The number of choices involved when you start homeschooling … [Read more...]
Review: Telling God’s Story by Peter Enns
I was raised (and homeschooled) in a Christian home, and I am a Christian today. But the faith I grew up with is quite different from the faith I have now. I was raised with certainty, and now I embrace mystery, and even doubt. I was raised with answers and have grown into questions. So, now I … [Read more...]
Free Printable 3-D Current Event Worksheet
When I was in high school I was regularly assigned the classic "Current Event." It was basically just clipping an article from a newspaper and summarizing it. It felt boring and irrelevant already (and I don't want to tell you how many years it's been since I was in high school!). It's no … [Read more...]
Mirrors and Windows
Sometimes homeschoolers get a reputation for sheltering our kids and limiting their experience of the world. But as homeschoolers (and afterschoolers!), one of our great opportunities is to give our children a wider view of the world than would be possible otherwise. We can use all of our "out of … [Read more...]
Sonlight or Bookshark: What’s a Progressive Christian Homeschooler to do?
It seemed like the world started dividing everybody up as soon as I got pregnant with my first child: breast or bottle? Cosleeping or crib? Home or working, or working from home? It got a little worse when we decided to homeschool. It wasn't my mom's homeschool world, where you either … [Read more...]