Today I am sharing YOUR favorites. The posts you enjoyed and shared the most in 2013. But this list is a little different. See there are some classic posts (e.g., art, slow cooking, homeschool habits) that beat most of this first list. I include these classics because the first eight are the most visited in […]
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Mid-Term Homeschool Assessment
Remember a few weeks ago when I shared about finding the heart of homeschool? “…I have also made a purposeful change. I have been asking the Lord to bless us. Because He has shown me in many ways “…you do not have because you do not ask.” James 4:2 Today, along with Collage Friday photos […]
Fall Homeschooling
I think I hear about it much more often from others during spring. The beautiful weather, need-to-get-outside, distracted and can’t-get-school-work-done issue. But boy do we tend to have that at our house in the fall! In fact, some of our very best family memories are made in the fall. Those times we just take off […]
Incorporating iPad and Online Learning into Homeschool
Technology can surely be a wonderful thing! And in this day in age Hodgepodgedad and I feel it is important to incorporate technology in many ways into our homeschool. Now, there certainly needs to be a balance of time away from that technology – true outside and reading-a-book time (why we have a built-in afternoon […]
Homeschool Electives and Extracurricular for Multiple Ages
This has been the week of all things elective and extracurricular. Just how – homeschooling multiple ages of children? A peek into our busy week… Well, of course there was math, language arts, science and the rest in there. But it was a bit overshadowed by the greatness of field trips. Particularly one that we […]
Full Throttle Homeschooling Multiple Ages
Our slow and steady start to homeschool led us to full throttle back to school. Over the last three weeks we have started more subjects, added some extras to our days. Plus, one by one, the extracurricular ramped up as well. And it’s all good. Though I do miss the days of summer and the […]
Weekly Homeschool Planning Meeting with Multiple Ages
Along with our habits, our weekly homechool planning meeting helps build the ‘bones’ of our homeschool days. Our family meeting with all our children gives us an outline for the week ahead. There are so many benefits to this time together. Photo by Amy Law Weekly Homeschool Planning Meeting With Multiple Ages So, before I […]
Homeschool Reorganization: Simplification and Reordering Priorities
What? Just a couple weeks in and already reorganizing? Yep. That’s because we started slow and steady, savoring summer. (We still are!) Then we started adding in a little more with language arts. This week we are almost full-fledged back to homeschool with extracurricular activities on top. But at the heart of our reorganization is […]
10 Homeschool Learning Centers at Hodgepodge
Things are always changing at Hodgepodge. (It is a confused mixture!) And it seems most every July we go through some updates in prep for the upcoming homeschool year. This year is no different. Creating learning centers is a bit of a passion for me. It’s an ongoing room by room makeover to meet the […]
10 Hodgepodge Homeschool FAQs
I’ve shared before some of the frequently asked questions we get here at Hodgepodge. We even have a menu tab for FAQs which categorizes The Six Most FAQ Homeschool Resource Questions and questions on teaching multiple ages. But in the last couple of months during this homeschool planning season, fellow families have found the posts […]
10 Things You Will Find at Hodgepodge
I thought we might poke around in the archives and I lead you on a little tour of Hodgepodge. Sometimes it really is a confused mixture and the pieces and parts go like this: 1. Parenting, faith and gratitude – from The Butter Cat – a Hodgepodge classic (because sometimes you just have to laugh)… to […]
Homeschooling Multiple Ages: Curriculum Choices
This last week I’ve shared our curriculum choices for 2013-2014 from kindergarten to high school. If you missed any of our individual plans, you can find a list at the bottom of this post. Because of that age range, we do many of our subjects and learning all together. Layers and levels – lasagna learning. […]
Homeschooling High School: Curriculum, Organization, Planning
This past week I have shared the span from kindergarten to middle school – our curriculum choices for 2013-2014. Today we reach homeschooling high school and in my next post I’ll share the resources we use with all our ages – together. This is the year we have two high schoolers – 9th grade Eldest […]