
Should Your Homeschooling Student Begin with Cursive or Print Writing?
Before your toddler begins to school for real, there is a lot of pre-schooling in the homeschool. From the age of two years it is alright to give your homeschool student a crayon or a pencil and allow them to write. Naturally at that stage they will be drawing...

Pre-school Assessment for Homeschool Students
If you have clarity about wanting to homeschool your child, you may want to begin working with them way before they are six years old and ready to start regular grades. The pre-writing activities such as dot to dot tracing, alphabet tracing and dot painting will...

Pre-writing Skills for Young Homeschoolers
Before your homeschool student can learn to write, he or she needs to be comfortable holding and using a pencil. The motor abilities of the child will constantly improve as they grow older, however, it's a good idea to get them started with pre-writing skills once...

Foreign Language Skills for Homeschool Students
Learning a new language helps enhance your brain's ability to recognize, negotiate meaning and communicate bilingually. The cognitive and memory skills of the new language learner will show an improvement. Besides the good that it does for your homeschool student's...

Surviving Middle School in the Homeschool Classroom
Teenagers are just about the most difficult students that you would expect. They are at a stage in life where they are pushing their own boundaries, exploring new things and learning how the world they inhabit works. In all of this the sweet little munchkin who liked...

Removing Distractions in the Homeschool Classroom
Children have a much shorter attention span when compared to adults. They also have a need to keep on moving. Having them sit down and study in the homeschool classroom can be tough when all they actually want to do is get up and run circles around the study table....

Minimalist Homeschooling Lifestyles
The one thing that you can always count on is for the study materials that you use in your homeschool classroom to grow. Whether it's new text books for the academic session, some art and crafts supplies, or simply reference books that you thought the children would...

Should Homeschool Students Consider College?
Homeschool students don't always head to college. There is a set of them who may consider local community colleges to get their undergraduate degrees, but most homeschool students are not interested in degrees as much as they are in the knowledge that they are...

Digital Classes are a Growing Homeschooling Trend
There is a growing trend among homeschool families which involves getting suitable digital classes for the homeschool students to attend. There are a number of reasons for the popularity of these online classes, which could stem from the need for specialized teaching,...

Emergency Homeschooling
At a time when many children are unable to go to regular school due to the pandemic situation, there has been a sharp increase in homeschooling families. With physical classes suspended across the nation, more children are turning to learning on the computer. The...