Creating our "gap year" curriculum When we decided to withdraw our kids for their 4th and 6th grade year this year, I barely knew where to start. Choosing the right curriculum and method for your students can make or break your school year. The pressure was compounded for me since we are not planning to … Continue reading How to Choose Homeschool Curriculum
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What is Required to Homeschool?
Since we’ve started this homeschool journey, several friends have talked to me and asked how I did it. How did I withdraw? What do I need to send to the state? What’s next? Who keeps track of this stuff? First, every state (and some school districts) have different requirements. Here is a handy-dandy resource for … Continue reading What is Required to Homeschool?
How do I Narrow Homeschool Choices?
How do you narrow down the multitude of choices? Choosing a homeschool curriculum can be overwhelming, and in this season of social distancing we can't even gather in curriculum fairs or conferences to look at books in person. When I started looking into what I would use to teach my girls, I opened christianbook.com and … Continue reading How do I Narrow Homeschool Choices?
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Why We Withdrew our Kids to Homeschool in 2020-2021
Yep. We're homeschooling this year. Like the 'withdrawing the kids, buying textbooks, and going to Homeschool Day at Six Flags' kind of homeschooling.
This was not my plan. But we chose to homeschool because it seemed like the most faith-filled response.