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10 Things You Should Know About Homeschool Moms
Let’s go ahead and clear a few things up. Homeschool moms are not all the same.We are not following some secret handbook.There is no group chat where we all agree on how to teach fractions or what counts as “enough” for the day. We are just moms… who chose a different way to live and…
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The Garden Lab: Gardening with Kids
Learning Leads to More Learning If you’ve never read The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett, I highly recommend it for all children and parents. It is such a beautiful book about imagination, friendship, and the transformative power of caring for something beyond yourself. As Mary tends to the garden and learns about friendship, her…
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Teaching History Through the Mary Celeste Mystery
Most history lessons are built around what is already known. The outcome is clear.The explanation is given.The thinking has already been done. Your child’s role is simply to learn it. But the Mary Celeste mystery does not work that way. Because the Mary Celeste mystery has no clear answer. And that changes everything. When the…
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How to Make an Edible Cell Model Your Kids Will Remember
Learn how to make an edible cell model, using cake and candies, that looks as incredible as it tastes. Making a cell model of some sort seems to be a universal rite of passage for middle and/or high school students. At some point during a biology unit, nearly every student is asked to build a…
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Pi Day Study: Hands-on Activities and Printable
Most of the time, when we introduce a new math idea, we explain it first and then look for examples. A Pi Day study works better the opposite way. A Pi Day Study That Starts With Curiosity You start with something ordinary and slightly puzzling and let kids notice the rule hiding inside it. Just…
