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Filed Under: Health & Nutrition · Free Curriculum · Health Education · Nutrition Education

Health Education Curriculum

Teaching health education without a formal curriculum is not as difficult as it sounds. Your local library and the internet can provide almost all the information you'd need to teach each of the ten basic content areas. Here are some resources and teaching suggestions for the first four content areas. This post is part one […]

Filed Under: Our Curriculum

Our 3rd, 6th, and 8th Grade Homeschool Curriculum

I've found that even after five years of homeschooling, I'm still making a lot of adjustments to our curriculum each year. This coming year some of the adjustments are due to the fact that I need some subjects to be independent for my kids, hence the self-teaching math my older two are switching to. As […]

Filed Under: Curriculum

What should I read this summer?

I need help to know what I should read this summer. I'd like to compile a reading booklist for myself this summer. Homeschooling, education, and parenting books are specifically what I'm looking for; but there are so many available, I'm not sure what books would be best to read. So I need your help. What are […]

Filed Under: Language Arts · Language Arts · Latin

Why Should I Learn Latin?

Why would I ever consider teaching latin to my homeschoolers? We live in america and latin is a dead language, right? When we first starting homeschooling and I was researching curriculum, I quickly realized there were a lot of homeschoolers out there teaching Latin to their children. Honestly, at first I thought they were just […]

Filed Under: Curriculum

Design-a-Study Guides

Welcome to my Build Your Own Homeschool Library series where I'm sharing with my readers some of my favorite books from my homeschool shelf. Please note that all the posts in this series contain my own opinions, and I have not been compensated by any publishing company for any of the content. Overview Design-a-Study guides, by […]