Category: Homeschooling
Kid-Led Learning – Can "Normal" Families Homeschool?
When our oldest daughter was born, my mom asked me if I was going to consider homeschooling. I thought she had to be joking because why would we? We have no religious reasons and I am no teacher. Plus, I had heard more than a few stories about homeschoolers being “weird” and anti-social – how [...]
Homeschooling – Meet Learning Outcomes without Cracking A Book
We are so very new to homeschooling – sort of. That may not really make sense. But, while we haven’t been doing math problems or practicing our writing for very long, our adventures with our now kindergartener have always been about learning. When we formally decided to become home learners and jump in with the [...]
Homeschooling – A Look At Theme-based Learning
It’s been a long time since I’ve gotten a chance to talk about homeschooling here on OBE. For the last year or so, we’ve been mulling around our educational options for the tiny person and it wasn’t until this month, actually, that we solidly moved forward with our plans to home-school. It’s not that I [...]
Homeschooling – Find the Right Curriculum
Now you’ve pulled your kids from the public schools, for reasons that vary from family to family and it’s time to decide what you are going to do with them at home. Chances are your mother and/or mother-in-law are breathing down your neck about wrecking your kids’ future because they don’t go to school. (Not [...]
Choices & Good Books About Homeschooling
Since our daughter was about 18 months old and I started looking into the whole idea of homeschooling, I was pretty much sold on doing the learning at home thing. We are a hands-on bunch to begin with, spending lots of our time looking for bugs in the forest, trying to figure out what bird [...]
Homeschooling – Choose The Right Books
Editor’s Note: Good Morning. Today, Royston farmer and homeschooling mom Louisa McClellan is here to talk shop on how to find the right books for your kids. Reading is a HUGE part of our lives around here and I, seriously, pound through dozens of books a month searching for the gems out there (long live [...]
Homeschooling – Child-Guided Learning
Editor’s note: Today, homeschooling mom Susan Spyker joins us with her first homeschooling column. Susan has spent years educating her children at home – exploring a huge variety of learning paths including Waldorf, Montessori and more. Her insight into giving children the space to discover how they learn best is a great first step for [...]
Homeschooling – Car School
Editor’s Note: I am sad to announce that this is Rosina’s last homeschooling column with Our Big Earth. Life is a busy, happy, complete place for her and balance is the key to anything good and true in life. So, she is off to pursue more homeschool, family-focused goodness and we’ll all be looking forward [...]
Establishing A Homeschool Co-Op
Homeschooling parents are the primary educators of their children and with this comes the responsibility and challenge of making learning fun while covering all academic subjects. It can be overwhelming at times to say the least! That’s where co-ops come in. They are groups of like-minded moms coming together with one common goal of creating [...]
The Home School – Lapbook Learning
Editor’s note: Whether you are a homeschooler or a parent looking for ways to extend your kiddo’s school learning experience, there is nothing like discovering tools that are inventive, easy and great ways to plug kids into their own way of learning. That’s what makes it so fantastic to introduce Rosina Huber. Her enthusiasm for [...]
Homeschooling in BC, How to Get Started
Homeschooling Valley mama Rosina Huber is here today to talk shop about how to go about getting your kiddo hooked up as a homeschooler this year. If you’re considering or continuing homeschooling your tiny people, Rosina is the mom in the know. Her article was originally published on the BC Homeschool Network. Here she is: [...]
