In years past, I have always shared details of our preschool and kindergarten curriculum choices here at Hodgepodge. Now that we’ve had much practice with children in preschool, elementary, middle and high school all at once, I felt it was time to make a permanent spot for all our favorite homeschool curricula. One place that […]
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Homeschooling Book Extras
Welcome to the clickable listing of our favorite resources for homeschooling, parenting and family life. An expanding list of Help! I’m Homeschooling! Book Extras. These are tried and true for you! Help! I’m Homeschooling Book Extras ~Any affiliate links included are for resources we absolutely love and truly depend on. Please see our disclosure […]
High School Homeschool Curriculum Choices
I have shared the span from preschool to middle school – our curriculum choices for each age and stage. Now we reach high school. We have now graduated three high schoolers and have two more to go! I am so very thankful my husband and I have the privilege of this time with our young […]
Use Summer to Build Habits In Your Homeschool
Oh summer is for fun! Summer can also be opportunity. See, without all the regular ‘have tos’ of school and extracurricular activities, there is time. That wonderful, empty space on the calendar. But sometimes having more time can be a challenge. So we have found a balance. Summer is when we work on those basic […]
Night Classes and Other Benefits of Homeschool
Though I share about homeschool habits almost every week here at Hodgepodge, ours seem to be changing daily! We have those habits we are grounded in but these days we are rearranging to meet the needs of our age range of children. Adapting to changing learning needs. Like night classes and other benefits of homeschool. […]
The Homeschool Math Answer
It was at the midpoint of the homeschool year I found we needed the math answer. The homeschool math answer. My eldest children were middle schoolers and I had preschoolers under foot. Math was a struggle. There were tears (from the children too). So I asked my fellow homeschool mamas. “Teaching Textbooks,” they said. I’m […]
IKEA for Homeschool – Organization Update
Are you organizing? Both July and late December seem to be THE organizational times for us. Both being before back-to-school times. I recently had a question from my friend Pamela on our IKEA for homeschool organization. And I asked if I could share her question here since it was about time for an organizational update. […]
Celebrating a Homeschool Graduate
When I was a young mother I wondered why those with older children seemed to not have much to share or say. Now that I am that mother celebrating a homeschool graduate – number two – I know why. Life is super busy. It is a different sort of busy from the survival-in-the-trenches days of […]
Homeschool Year Home Stretch
Can you feel it too? We are definitely in the homeschool year home stretch. I think it dawned on me when the younger children all moved to the last Teaching Textbooks disc. That means we are almost done! Another homeschool year has flown by. It also means we have a chance to finish strong over these […]
Homeschooling High School Learning Styles
I find myself in the countdown to graduation of my second high schooler! Can you believe that the graduation cap and gown has shipped and is on its way to us? Really. There are just about three months left until my son graduates. Yet another realization hit me a few weeks ago at the beginning […]
8 Ways to Conquer Math Phobia
We at Hodgepodge welcome Teaching Textbooks today to share answers for math phobia… How can you deal with a fear of math if your child has it? Don’t believe the lie that math is just a natural talent for the select few. Here are eight things you can do to improve your approach to homeschooling […]
How to Meet The Needs of an Age Range
There seem to be certain times of year I am keenly aware of the needs of an age range of children that we have. It’s continually changing. Just when I think my husband and I have things set, there is something new. Just how to meet the needs of an age range? I asked myself […]
IKEA Work at Home Organization for Homeschool Mom
Roughly about this time every year I catch the organizational bug. It is usually brief so I have to spring into action when it hits. This year it has been about work at home organization for homeschool mom. It was time. In sixteen years of homeschooling and eight years of blogging, I have not had […]