Among our favorites are digital homeschool resources. Why? Well, many reasons. Digital is more affordable. Digital passes down easily to siblings. It is easy to open, click and print. Digital resources do not take up much space! It is very quick to look up an assignment and recheck just what that history fact was. Digital […]
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Homeschool Graduation Favorites
What a privilege to watch our eldest graduate from high school! It’s a day we’ve long anticipated in our homeschool but it always seemed so far off on the horizon. This past senior year, however, things sped along. I thought I’d share some suggestions, some successes and definitely some homeschool graduation favorites – in case […]
Homeschool Video Courses for Multiple Ages
I’ve shared before how our homeschooling method is a hodgepodge. We have a true love of certain curricula (like Tapestry of Grace, Rod and Staff and Saxon) and have used them for all of our years of homeschooling. But that doesn’t mean we can’t add in some extras. Especially in the high school years, we […]
Homeschool High School Finish Line
Here at Hodgepodge homeschool we are just about at the homeschool high school finish line. Time is going so fast that I find myself taking a deep breath – often. We are in the final two months of our eldest child’s senior year. This time I will share with you all those last, little things […]
Homeschool Independent Learning
Busy, blessed and – forced rest! That is what our February homeschool looked like. But an overall theme for this month has been homeschool independent learning. It’s something we’ve worked on for all our years of homeschooling. (You may have noticed that I’ve gone to a monthly rather than weekly homeschool wrap up. If you’d […]
Hodgepodge Holiday Homeschool Celebrations
Over the next weeks we will be enjoying a few, long-standing homeschool habits – those holiday homeschool celebrations. With both Thanksgiving and Christmas coming up, our schedule is a little different. Not only because are involved in several activities at church and in drama productions, plus blessed with family times but also because it is […]
Fall Homeschool and College Visits
It has been a long time since I have shared a homeschool update! Like you, we have been busy with the needs of the age range. More than ever before, I feel like our days whiz by – from the elementary ages up to our daughter in her senior year. And, just when I think […]
Helpful Homeschool Habit: Start Something New
Though we are half way through September, I feel like we keep having fresh starts. This is the year to start something new. Yes, it is so good to stick with what works, but on this homeschool journey our days are always changing with growing children. Different needs. New seasons. Geography in the family room. […]
Back to Hodgepodge Homeschool
We are back to Hodgepodge Homeschool in full force in September! We have been stepping back in here and there for the last weeks. There are many things I want to share with you, my friends, since I have been practicing the habit of rest for about six weeks now. I have homeschool things to […]
How We Teach Homeschool
Today I share with you how we teach homeschool. How do you teach language arts? Tapestry of Grace? These are questions I get especially at this time of year. I have answered these questions before here at Hodgepodge. Also, our friends at iHomeschool Network (ihsnet) have a wonderful resource, How We Teach, available for homeschoolers. […]
Helpful Homeschool Habit: Fly!
It has been a long while since I have shared a Collage Friday and weekly homeschool wrap. That is due to several reasons. And, of course, we have been practicing the helpful homeschool habit: fly! “What if I FALL? Oh but my darling, what if you FLY?” We’ve been busy homeschooling all our ages here […]
How to Get Started Homeschooling
How to Get Started Homeschooling? First, take a deep breath… Exhale… God’s got this. And you are in for the ride of your life. I am here to tell you it won’t be easy. It is refinement by fire. But I can say, after nearly 15 years, that a homeschooling lifestyle is a rich reward […]
10 Things I Would Buy For Our Homeschool With $100
What would you do with $100 to spend on your homeschool at Amazon? I am sharing my choices for our Hodgepodge homeschool below. This was such fun to think and dream about! Plus, in celebration of my friend Mary Prather’s newly redesigned Homegrown Learners, we are giving away one (1) $100 Amazon gift card to […]