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Homeschooling isn't about teaching-it's about learning together with your child. In this indispensable guide, author and homeschooler Sherri Linsenbach provides you with the encouragement, inspiration, and ideas you need to explore this option for your family. It's packed full of ideas to make the experience easy, affordable, and, most of all, fun. Even veteran homeschoolers will find new ideas and techniques that help keep home education interesting...
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"A joyful and accessible approach to homeschool that harnesses children's natural curiosity and makes learning a part of everyday life, whether they're in elementary or high school. Parents who are deeply invested in their children's education can be hard on themselves and their kids. When exhausted parents are living the day-to-day grind, it can seem impossible to muster enough energy to make learning fun or interesting. How do parents nurture a...
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"Our K-12 school system is an artificial product of market forces. It isn't a good fit for all--or even most--students. It prioritizes a single way of understanding the world over all others, pushes children into a rigid set of grades with little regard for individual maturity, and slaps "disability" labels over differences in learning style. Caught in this system, far too many young learners end up discouraged, disconnected, and unhappy. And when...
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"Parents, do you need practical support and confidence to meet the academic needs of your bright or twice-exceptional learner? Homeschooling Gifted Kids: A Practical Guide to Educate and Motivate Advanced Learners clearly and concisely teaches you how to homeschool advanced learners! It focuses on special considerations that often go along with gifted children such as providing challenging curriculum, offering outlets for artistic and creative talents,...
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Many believe that you need expensive materials, or a formal classroom, for true learning to take place. 100 Ways to Teach your Kids with Fruit sets out to challenge that notion. Parents can teach their children while preparing lunch, going to the park, or on the trip to school! Algebra, chemistry, English, drama, art, mathematics, and so much more, can be found in everyday life! Teachers are often instructed to look out for teachable moments; however,...
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The idea of homeschooling is both frightening and exciting. It is an idea that takes you out of mainstream thought and has you questioning your validity as a good parent. The thinking that your child should be removed from a public or private school and isolated in a home environment undoubtedly teeters on the right or wrong. Once a parent moves beyond this trend of negative thought, researches the vast amount of material related to homeschooling,...
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The W Street Family Travels to Africa introduces us to the family's adventure on a new continent - Africa. Aunt Wanda prepares the kids for a great adventure: a real safari. And the most amazing thing: Wowlet, who could not fly with them, is trained by Aunt Wanda to fly safely to Africa, across the Atlantic, and meet them at their hotel. What the family didn't expect is that, besides the Safari adventure where they meet various animals from the Savannah,...
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