 When we first start homeschooling, we either keep everything or keep nothing at all. What exactly do you need to document what your children have done all year? If you don’t know where to start, these essential elements of a homeschool portfolio can provide you with a basis of what each student needs. For all…
History is a tricky subject when it comes to choosing curriculum. Using traditional textbooks can make the subject less than desirable for homeschool students. Since it can be so difficult to decide on, I wanted to share our top 3 history curriculum choices for the year. I remember a conversation I had with my son…
Have you been contemplating changing your math curriculum next year? There are so many out there that I know it can be overwhelming. If you are like many other homeschooling families, you may have gone through one or two already and don’t want to have to go through the change again. We want to help…
You may have noticed we are making a few upgrades to the Homeschool Planet site! We have updated our Themes and Colors interface, but if you don’t like change – no worries! We have you covered. You can easily customize your Homeschool Planet online planner interface.
Teaching life skills to our children is just as important as teaching them their core subjects. I am sure that statement is debatable, but it is worth taking a moment to consider. A life skill that can be taught from an early age is time management. Teaching your children time management takes some effort but…
There comes a time when we can encourage our children with independent learning. The difficulty lies in how to do it. How can we help our kids to independent learning when we have been through homeschooling with them every step of the way? If you have more than one child at home, you probably…
Does homeschool planning seem like it might suck the life out of you every year? If this time of year is especially grueling for you, trying something new can make things so much easier! Some of us are planners and some of us – not so much. I know some moms, including myself, who love…
Homeschool Planet has a built-in option for you to make sure your child can incorporate chores into their homeschool day. It is quite useful and helps kids to know that chores aren’t just another thing to do but are part of what they do during the day. Chore time can be counted as school time…
Although there is certainly a ton of freedom in homeschooling, there are some parameters we need to adhere to that vary from state to state, or country to country for that matter. No matter what state or country in which you live, an amazing tool to capture your child’s education is a homeschool portfolio. Easy…
A big cause of paranoia in homeschooling is the worry of not doing enough for your child to enter college. You can do all you can to ensure your child is at a certain level of knowledge to proceed from year to year but when do you start capturing what they have learned in order to produce a viable transcript for graduate school or trade school? Do you start at the middle school level? High school? What do you need in in a transcript? Learn how to put this worry behind you and generate high school transcripts in only a click.
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