Perhaps the most common mistake a homeschooling teacher makes is over scheduling activities in the homeschool classroom. Each minute of time in the class room has to count for some productive work or else it is considered wasted. Are you one of these homeschooling...

Some children can finish an hour's worth of reading in half an hour, and others can turn a ten minute writing assignment into an hour's work. Children work at different speeds. Some are quick, and others who seem slow, are actually very methodical learners who need to...

Working on projects such as model of a cell, or making a map can be educational as well as entertaining. Now here's a suggestion to make project work in your homeschool classroom even better by making it edible. The homeschool students create a model using edible...

With a number of kids to homeschool and all of them in different grades, it can be difficult to organize a common time for all of them to eat lunch. At the same time maintaining a good pace in the homeschool classroom for learning. It can be equally difficult to keep...

Literacy is the cornerstone of homeschool education. Naturally you would like your homeschool students to know how to read and write and do basic arithmetic calculations, but there is more to life than basic literacy. As a homeschooling parent you wish to ensure that...

Most homeschooling families tend to have a room dedicated to the purpose of being a classroom. However there are some homeschooling parents who actively avoid having a separate classroom for their homeschooling students. Here are the reasons why they avoid having a...

It is nearly impossible to run a homeschool classroom without a calendar and a planner. However there is a tendency to keep only classroom related information updated on the books. Other tasks outside the homeschool classroom get delegated to another calendar or just...

Getting a child's attention is easy, its holding their focus on the task involved that holds the real challenge. If your young homeschool students are unable to focus on anything for more than five minutes flat, you may like to help them to focus better using some of...

A single child falling sick in a homeschooling family can throw the whole schedule out of kilter. The trip to the doctor with the sick child and subsequent care for him will ensure that the efficiency of your homeschool classroom drops drastically. This means that...

Whoever said that time solved all problems, never went from homeschooling a toddler to homeschooling a teenager! While some skills are mastered by the time the homeschool student hits his teens, there are a whole new set of issues that the parent must deal with as he...