Category Archives: Planning, Organizing, and Scheduling

7 Reasons to Buy Your Homeschool Curriculum Early

Although your new school year may be months away, now is the best time to order next year's homeschool curriculum. Here are seven reasons why earlier is better when it comes to getting your new homeschool curriculum purchases squared away.
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5 Benefits to Using a Timeline in Your Homeschool

Timelines are an essential part of teaching history. This valuable—yet simple— tool helps students understand the chronology of historical events and make connections between individual events and people. In addition to providing big-picture context to your history studies, here are … Continue reading

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15 Easy Ways To Take Your Homeschool Organization To The Next Level

"The homeschool police do not come if you skip something in the IG. Use it as you need it!” Here are15 practical organizational tips to create a more orderly approach to learning in your home. Continue reading

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Homeschooling Multiple Children: Top Tips For Success

Homeschooling is a choice that can make a big difference in the overall education of your child. But what happens when you need to consider the needs of multiple children? The fact is most homeschooling families are doing so with … Continue reading

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How and Why We Document Our Homeschool Year

If there is anything my kids love to collect it is paper. When I have them clean out their school drawers, they make piles of art papers, church papers, story papers, and scribble papers. The piles of paper make me … Continue reading

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2 Fixes for When You Aren't Finished with Homeschool in May

As we near the end of the traditional school year, many families are looking forward to summer vacation and a change of pace. But what do you do if you’re behind in schoolwork and you were really hoping to be … Continue reading

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Way Behind in Homeschool? Tips, Resources & More to Catch Up Fast

Every once in a while we have one of those years where we fall behind schedule in homeschool. Just kidding! We fall behind schedule at least a few times every year. Usually, I get a head start by beginning school … Continue reading

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