Homeschooling Spelling: Our low-stress, child-led approach (including resources)
Homeschooling spelling is a bit like learning times tables – it involves a lot of rote learning, is incredibly boring, the real-life reasons for mastering it aren’t immediately apparent, and it is shoved on children at a too-young age. Or maybe that’s just my opinion. In my head, spelling works a bit strangely. I can […]
How I homeschool grammar (without knowing it myself)
Here’s a question I received recently – “I saw a photo of your son diagramming sentences – I don’t know how to do this but lots of people talk about it on homeschool groups. Where do I even START teaching something like that to my children?” Steph. Ah, that would be this photo. I’m only […]
Our Eclectic Homeschool Resource Summary
It’s always fun to have a stickybeak into other people’s homeschools, right? Here’s what we’re doing as of February 2017. Now, this is not ALL we do – this is just the more traditionally academic parts. We also do a lot of sewing, craft, and clothing design (in the last few weeks there’s been […]