Planning the Home Education Year: Part 5 – Making Adaptations/Modifications to the Curriculum

Planning the Home Education Year: Part 5 – Making Adaptations/Modifications to the Curriculum

This is part 5 in the planning series. If you haven’t read the other parts yet, I encourage you to do so before reading below since each part builds upon the next. Part 1 – Defining your family’s philosophy of education Part 2 – Finding your child’s...
Planning the Home Education Year: Part 4 – Locating the Curriculum/Program & Finding Resources

Planning the Home Education Year: Part 4 – Locating the Curriculum/Program & Finding Resources

You know your family’s philosophy of education (part 1), you’ve pinpointed your child’s learning style and dominant intelligence (part 2), and you’ve nailed down an educational approach that most fits the two (part 3). Now, you’re ready to shop for a curriculum. What...
Planning the Home Education Year: Part 3 – Selecting an Educational Style

Planning the Home Education Year: Part 3 – Selecting an Educational Style

In the last post, you identified your child’s learning style and one or two dominant intelligences. Let’s move on to finding an educational style. There are as many styles of educating our children at home as there are types of schools. When homeschooling a...
Planning the Home Education Year: Part 2 – Finding Your Child’s Dominant Intelligence and Learning Style

Planning the Home Education Year: Part 2 – Finding Your Child’s Dominant Intelligence and Learning Style

In part 1 of this series, we looked at defining your family’s philosophy of education. Today, we’ll look at your child’s learning style, which we cannot fully discuss until we look at Dr. Howard Gardner’s theory of Multiple Intelligences. Multiple Intelligences Dr....
Planning the Home Education Year: Part 1 – Outlining Your Beliefs

Planning the Home Education Year: Part 1 – Outlining Your Beliefs

Planning the homeschool year can be daunting. You may find yourself searching online and looking through resources wondering if you can do this. Whether this is your first year as a home educator or your last, rest assured that every parent and educator feels that...