Homeschooling for His Glory

At the risk of repeating myself, homeschooling is all about flexibility and innovation, taking advantage of any opportunity to learn and to grow in our understanding of life and everything around it. With that in mind the kitchen is great a place for learning life skills and practice other kind of theoretical knowledge. How does this work in our homeschool? Here are a few things I do with the kids: I try to have them help me, as much as they can and are willing, in cooking and baking. This is a great way for them to practice Math skills such as measuring and fractions to name a couple. I involve them at the store in computing amounts. This is good practice in arithmetic, rounding and estimating. Most of our science experiments are done in the kitchen. When the kids were younger, helping me bake was helping improving their reading skills as I would ask them to tell me what the next step on the recipe. The reason why the kitchen can be such a great place for learning i...

I am not the most creative person there is. As a homeschooling mom this fact has been my pet-peeve, as I often associated being a good homeschooling mom as being able to be innovative in the way I teach. To some degree, I still feel that way but I have come to terms to the kind of person I am and try to make the most of it. I like to think that homeschooling is not so much " doing school at home " (though that is what I tell the boys), but " home educating ". What is the difference you might ask? Well, when I think of school I think rigidity, mold and pattern. When I think homeschooling I think flexibility, innovation, out of the box. That is not to say that there are no constraints to homeschooling, because there surely are if you want your kids to be truly educated. They have to know how to read, write, count, do algebra, have a good vocabulary, know science, history, geography and if possible foreign languages, but all of this gets to be taught in a fam...