This will be my daughter Alina's first year at college and my son Ian's sophomore year in high school! I'll be homeschooling Ian solo now 😲 and focusing on Algebra, SAT Prep, Homeopathic Medicine, World History, the Constitution, independent studies, and his passionate interest in cars and robotics. Alina will be attending college part-time, taking Latin, writing, and math alongside her independent studies and working part-time. They will both continue in my Liberty Scholar

Here's inspiration for a classics-focused class for high school homeschoolers. Over the last year and a half, I've worked out the kinks and built a successful classics-focused program for local teens called Liberty Scholars. My goal with this program is to help kids be prepared for adulthood, civic duty, and leadership, with a solid foundation in US constitutional principles and classics. Overall, this is what the program looks like: Reading two classic books per month (gene

Math picture books were an important aspect of our homeschool math studies throughout elementary and middle homeschool. Picture books are an engaging, unpressured way to share the joy of math with my children. I never wanted these books to feel like "assignments," so I purposely did NOT emphasize that these were math books. Instead, we just read and enjoyed the books together. Top 25 Math Picture Books Math Biographies Blockhead: The Life of Fibonacci by Joseph D'Agnese Py

Reading is a subject that stresses out many homeschoolers, but it doesn't have to. Here is some encouragement to let go of the stress...

Teaching kids to become independent learners is one of the foundations of our homeschool philosophy. For my two high schoolers, this means that, in addition to our all-together schooling time, they also pursue their own studies independently. Here's a snapshot of independent study plans for 18yo Alina's Senior year and 15yo Ian's Freshman year. Scholar Contracts for My Teens Each semester, I sit down with the kids to develop their Scholar Contracts. The purpose of the Schol

If you're like me, you may have found that the graphic novel section at the library can be a minefield. Some of the graphic novels are...

Here are classic books I feel should never be neglected in a young child’s reading repertoire. Though I don’t have the space to mention...

Read-alouds are one of the most important tools for parents! Through read-alouds, you can: Nurture a love of reading in your kids Teach...

Teaching kids to become independent learners is one of the foundations of our homeschool philosophy. For my 16yo daughter Alina, this...

Teaching kids to become independent learners is one of the foundations of our homeschool philosophy. For my 15yo daughter Alina, this...

Over the last year, our homeschool rhythm has been shaken up as my 14yo daughter Alina has entered self-directed Scholar Phase. For...

Do your kids love to write? Or see it as a chore? Although writing is a very important skill to learn, I purposely don't use a formal...

With the recent upheavals of the pandemic, protests, and riots, right now there is renewed interest in learning about the foundational...

2022 UPDATE: A few more books were added to this list for older kids based on our most recent exploration of the human body. My children...

My Early Failures in Teaching Writing Writing was one of the subjects that I pushed too hard on, back in the early years of...

These 26 picture books span 6 continents and 14 countries. Picture books are a wonderful way to engage my children in learning...

The following are our favorite folk and fairy tales from the 20 countries we "visited" on our World Trip.