ADHD & Homeschool

Yes, you can absolutely homeschool your child even if you have ADHD. While homeschooling can present some challenges, having ADHD does not disqualify you from being an effective homeschooling parent. In fact, it can provide you with a unique understanding of your child’s needs and allow you to tailor the learning environment to suit their individual learning style.

How Building a Skateboard Combines Multiple Subjects

Building a skateboard can be an exciting and educational activity for homeschoolers. We recently used the Elos Skateboard Kit to build our own skateboard and it was so much fun. It combines multiple subjects such as science, math, engineering, art, and safety principles. In this blog post, we will explore how building a skateboard canContinue reading “How Building a Skateboard Combines Multiple Subjects”

Field Trip Vacation Mode

We are headed to the desert this week, we’re staying with family which is such a blessing, it saves on the budget and we will get such a personalized experience. We have been studying the desert using our latest Secret Explorers unit study. It’s been such a joy to create these units Norah is interestedContinue reading “Field Trip Vacation Mode”

Shopping Curriculum Early

This is the first year I have shopped curriculum as early as I have, I usually wait a little closer to maybe April or May but this year I felt compelled to customize my daughters education next year even more. She has expressed what she wants and needs from her education and I’m going toContinue reading “Shopping Curriculum Early”

Easing Your Load

Being a homemaker is extremely difficult. The running to-do lists, many hats we wear and just the general keeping people alive, isn’t that enough? What I have found lately, and I’m not going to write a lengthy post about how I’ve got it together and you can too if you just do this because IContinue reading “Easing Your Load”

Small Space Homeschooling

Organizing your homeschool and keeping it confined to a small space is hard, like really hard. My husband has complained more than once when our resources have migrated to different parts of the house. I’m pretty sure no one is immune to that but it’s especially difficult when you have a small space to homeschool.

New to The Secret Explorers Books

The Secret Explorers are group of diverse children from all over the world, coming together to solve problems together using their talents. These S.T.E.A.M. unit studies are so fun and engaging, kinesthetic learning at it’s best.

National Lego Day ~ January 28th!

I won’t write a big long blog post cause you’re here for the free Lego lesson plan and if you’re anything like me you’re a visual person so I’ll show you pictures of how we use Legos in our homeschool. Leave a comment with some of your favorite ways to use Legos in your homeschool.Continue reading “National Lego Day ~ January 28th!”

How-To Create a Minecraft Homeschool World

I am not even going to suggest I’m an expert at Minecraft, merely looking at Minecraft gives me motion sickness but don’t want to be out of touch with my kids, I want to engage in what they’re talking about and I genuinely think there are some amazing benefits to Minecraft and other video games.

Financial Literacy

It’s so simple to teach your kids financial literacy and so hard at the same time because we need to be good financial stewards ourselves and it needs to be real world application. This is not exclusively a homeschool topic, send this to a non-homeschool friend, this is definitely not taught in schools enough. HereContinue reading “Financial Literacy”