I hear from so many homeschoolers about what a slog math can be. Kids crying over their soggy workbooks (from previous sessions’ tears) is no uncommon occurrence. Back in 1997, I had just finished my first year of teaching. It was a rough first year. My first jog was teaching at a small private school … Read more
Gameschooling Language Arts is pretty simple. You can start with board games you already might have on hand: think Scrabble, Mad Libs, Apples to Apples, Boulderdash, Trivia, to name a few, or ones not mentioned here that have Language Arts elements such as reading, writing, storytelling, listening, summarizing, and pretending. Watch my video below about … Read more
Are you struggling through homeschool math this year? Does your child cry over their math workbook or virtual program they MUST complete everyday? Click here and watch my video “How To Gameschool Math.” I share my top tips that will get you up and running today! If you’re ready to throw in the towel with homeschooling … Read more
This week, I’m on the kick of Gameschooling. Why? It’s February. This is the season for spicing up the homeschool routine because the winter doldrums can hit most homeschoolers pretty hard with boredom, restlessness, stir craziness (if you’re cooped up inside), and curriculum burnout. It’s cold out for many of us in the Northern hemisphere. … Read more
During the fall of 2019, I did something crazy and way out of my comfort zone. I took a full-time job as a Pre-algebra teacher AND boarding house parent at the Arthur Morgan School (AMS) for middle schoolers in Burnsville, NC. It was one of my top most challenging years teaching ever. Not only were … Read more
The other day, I did something super fun. I did a demonstration read-aloud of a neat little story I found on Archive.org called, The Snowflake: A Water Cycle Story by Neil Waldmen. While I read the story aloud, I gently guide the reader to think about the science and the math in the story. I … Read more
When I opened an in-person nature-based homeschool program for the residential and local multi-age kids at Heathcote Intentional Community in Freeland, Maryland back in 2010, we spent HOURS per program day outdoors. Granted, it was super easy and enticing to be out in nature on 112 acres in a beautiful wooded valley complete with a … Read more
Way back in 2010, I joined a homeschool Open Classroom program, or classroom without walls, as an apprentice to the program facilitator, Dana. Dana told me during the first month, I would deschool. At first, I wasn’t sure what that meant. I found out quickly. At first I was more of an observer of the … Read more
Learn why you as a homeschool parent should adopt math and science unit studies.
MathArt student, Josh, showing his tasty tessellation cookies. Do you get all worked up about math? I believe that no other school subject gets parents worked up in a fevered sweat like math does. Our modern public education systems insists on students completing a rigorous no goshbegone nonsense math curriculum. Unless you have a natural … Read more