Physical Education for Homeschoolers
I remember physical education class in elementary school, though it was so long ago! It involved jumping jacks, relay races, and kickball. While your child can do jumping jacks on his own, relay races and kickball are team activities. Even with a big family, it’s often difficult for homeschoolers to participate traditional PE activities. But homeschooled children can have school days complete with physical
Summer Learning Activities
Summer Learning Activities
Identifying Trees – What’s Growing in Your Backyard?
Identifying trees is a fun activity for the whole family as you find out just what’s growing out there!
Socialized? You Bet!
Worried about having socialized children when you homeschool? You don’t need to! There are so many opportunities available for Socializing when Homeschooling!
Child-Led Education
A fellow homeschooling mom forwarded an article on child-led learning to me the other day. I had just finished reading John Holt’s ‘How Children Learn’ so the article was timely for me. John Holt said “…what we need to do – and all we need to do – is to give children as much help and guidance as the need and ask for, listen
Teaching My Son Colors
I had a lot of fun teaching my son his colors. I taught him by reading books with colorful pictures and naming the colors of objects we saw as we took a walk. After I pointed out an old blue truck on blocks down the street, every truck we saw was old and blue until he understood the meaning of the words that we
