All study and no fun can make your homeschool students dull. So here are some ideas to add fun in a reasonable and cost effective manner to your homeschooling family. Maybe these will spark your imagination to come up with more activities of your own that are better...

While a number of homeschooling families do not take a long summer break in sync with regular schools, they may take a short break during this period from the homeschool classroom. When getting ready to go back to a normal schedule of classes, it may be a good idea to...

There are a lot of advantages of homeschooling special needs children. If you are on the cusp of making a decision about the schooling of your own special needs child, you may want to consider these points in favor of having them homeschooled rather than looking for...

Having a child with special needs is often a major reason for families to pick homeschooling. While some disabilities may be physical and immediately obvious, there are a whole bunch of disabilities which are not so. Once your child has been officially diagnosed as a...

There's never a good time to sit down and record everything that you do with your homeschool students. So many other tasks seem more urgent and keep you on your toes. It's easy to let record keeping slide when you are running a homeschool classroom with kids in...

Having goals is an integral part of homeschooling, however often the goals set are not met because they are not SMART goals. It's got nothing to do with being intelligent, but everything to do with having specific, measurable, attainable, relevant and time bound...

Transcripts for the homeschool student can seem like a huge undertaking for the new homeschooling parent. It seems like a simple fault years ago could cause your homeschool student's chances of college to fade away. Actually, it's a big deal, but it's also super easy...

Essential part of keeping transcripts easy to understand is by having a GPA or Grade Point Average. The starting point to do so is to know the number of courses that your homeschool student is doing. You can take a look at all the material being taught in the academic...

A transcript allows your homeschool student to have a record of all their school work for any possible reference in the future. This would come in handy for legal matters as well as college admissions later in life. By being a responsible homeschool teacher and...

The Need for Testing The homeschool transcripts are important to showcase exactly what your homeschool student has been learning along the year. However, many states have a legal requirement for homeschool families to take some standardized tests to prove that the...