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Design Your Own Homeschool Curriculum

A homeschooling mom travelled 3500 miles cross-country with her son and found educational experiences in some unexpected places. Drives home the point that learning can happen in many different ways and that we cannot always plan how our children will learn.

Carschooling

Whether you are on the road full time, or just spending large chunks of time getting from one activity to another, carschooling might be the way to get your homeschooling done. Offers free games, activities, and other ideas to make the most of your travel time.

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Unschooling Highlights

This list consists of a selection of posts from the UnschoolingDiscussion list.

Math-U-See Users Group

This email group is for lovers and users of the Math-U-See program.

The Ultimate Guide to Learning Styles

Understanding your child's learning style is the key that can unlock your child's potential. Children retain more when they are taught and practice independent learning in cooperation with their particular learning style. You can also avoid a lot of frustration by responding to your child's learning style rather than fighting it. This guide explains seven different learning styles and will help with understanding your homeschooling style and curriculum choices for that specific model of learning. This will help your child learn more efficiently as well as reducing stress in your homeschool. The seven learning styles explored include: visual learners, auditory learners, reading/writing learners, kinesthetic learner, mathmatical/logical learner, social learner, and solitary learner.

Homeschooling with Minimal Academic Structure

A look at a relaxed homeschooling methodology, a mix between book work and unschooling.

Tips for Frazzled Homeschool Moms

Any homeschooling family with more than one child knows the challenge of keeping “Baby Kong” from tearing apart the house during school time. These tips help with how to deal with those unruly toddlers and make it through this difficult and often exhausting stage of homeschool life.

What is a Media Kit and How Do I Make One?

A media kit is a document you provide to potential advertisers and other parties you are interested in working with information about your value as a partner. It is meant to reflect your reach as a blogger. A media kit can be as simple as an ad page with basic blog and social media numbers or as complex as a full-blown demographic study of your readers printed and bound. Whatever kind of media kit you choose to create, remember to be clear and concise.

Home Schooling Achievement

Home Schooling Achievement provides a concise look at home school achievement test score data, followed by a more in depth comparison of student's scores with parent education levels, money spent on home school curriculum, government regulation, and race, and gender. In all categories, home school students' successes defy the standard predictors. The final chart examines activities and community involvement and resoundingly explodes the myth that home schooled children lack adequate socialization opportunities.

Homeschool Christian Working Homeschooling Parent Message Board

Whether you work part-time or full-time, this board is to support you! It's not easy being a breadwinner and a homeschooling parent. You can find the encouragement you need right here.

Homeschooling an Only Child: The Pros and Cons

Large families make up one of homeschooling’s stereotypes–a line of eight or more children, all following obediently behind Mom and Dad. Those of us who have been homeschooling long know both the truths and the realities of this picture. The truth is that plenty of families, large or small, find a way to make homeschooling work beautifully for them. But what about families who only have one child? Is homeschooling really an option for these parents and children? To find out, let’s take a brief look at the advantages and disadvantages of homeschooling an only child.

Alpha Omega

Alpha Omega offers complete curriculum packages from a Christian perspective. Products include Switched-On Schoolhouse®, their computer-based curriculum. For the student who enjoys a more traditional approach, they offer a worktext curriculum, LIFEPAC®. The Horizons curriculum is most effective for students who master concepts more quickly and enjoy learning at a faster pace. If your students learn best in a group where they can build upon each other's accomplishments, The Weaver Curriculum® is the program for you. They also have Power-Glide, a comprehensive, independent-study, foreign language series for the student desiring to learn a foreign language. And, for the student who needs to develop or enhance reading, spelling, and comprehension skills they offer ARC™.