101 Homeschool Ideas

Fun Math Games for Homeschool Families

Homeschool families sometimes miss out on some of the really great educational research. Spencer Kagan started researching cooperative learning in the late 1960's. His research has been used with great success in public classrooms. Home school families that have used these ideas have found similar success. These are great homeschool activities that engage the learners in a way that is fun and stimulating. Your home school children will retain more and come away from the day with a better attitude about the overall education process.

As a homeschool parent, the most important thing you can do is strengthen your relationship with your children. Not only will it create an awesome memory for your children, but it will actually making your home school lessons later on more successful because you will be making some major deposits into your children's emotional account. This will allow your children to see you relaxed and having fun. The lessons from homeschool are more about life than it is knowledge. Try these games and let me know about your experience at www.101homeschoolideas.com/episode30

Every child is different, and that makes teaching them the greatest challenge on earth. Parents that home school their children understand what it means to wrestle with difficult addition problems... Not that they can't do the problem, just how to get their children to understand and then apply the principle to the problem. Homeschool ideas helps with this podcast on how to help visual learners get excited about learning (here is a hint... it is not going to be a lecture for these little learners).

It is very important for home school parents to identify what learning styles appeal to the personality and preference of their children. Understanding the difference between auditory learners, kinesthetic learners, and visual learners. There are other learning styles (see Multiple Intelligences), but these three tend to be widely accepted as the core learning styles. One home school parents understand what learning style appeals to each of their children, selecting teaching activities actually becomes much easier because you have a core set of activities to choose from and this episode gives you 5 or six great ideas for your homeschool students.

I have listed several learning activities for homeschool parents with children that have the wiggles during school time. These ideas may just totally change your home school experience. So many times children that struggle to sit still are diagnosed with ADD or ADHD, when really they are just extreme kinesthetic learners. Trying some of these teaching ideas might help you get your child interested in learning again.

There are so many different approaches to learning. Researchers pretty much agree on three basic learning styles: auditory, visual, and kinesthetic. In order to fully take advantage of the opportunity to individualize your children's education through home school, you need to be aware of what learning style fits your child best. Listen to this podcast and I will not only help you identify your children's learning styles, but I also offer some lesson ideas for homeschool parents to try right now.

Michele Brown is the Senior Assistant Director of Economic Access & Ohio State University Acadmey Program. She has been in undergraduate admissions for 27 YEARS!!!!. She knows her stuff, so get ready for some great advice about getting into college. She has some excellent homeschool ideas! College Preparation for Homeschool Families Without question, the most CONTINUE

5 steps to help your children benefit from good peer reviews. The studies are really clear that peer reviews not only help the student whose work gets reviewed, but the learning of the reviewer increases as well. This episode walks you through 5 important tips to help your children both receive feedback as well as CONTINUE

12 questions from people who don’t quite understand homeschool and how I answer them. Let’s face it. Every one of us has asked that question we regretted as soon as the words left our mouth. Maybe for you it was: “When is your baby due?” … Only to realize that there is no baby, or CONTINUE

Homeschool parents will love this interview.

This podcast offers an idea for home school parents in science and research. Homeschool students need to have opportunities to use their imagination in their schooling. Imagination can produce some of the most powerful learning experiences and that makes these homeschool ideas really helpful. Don't miss out on these ideas for home education. K-12 teachers might even like this episode.

MATH HOMESCHOOL IDEAS: Throughout several of these interviews, one of the common threads has been a frustration with the subject of math. I am by no means a math scholar, but here are three ideas to help younger children with counting and fractions. WRITING HOMESCHOOL IDEAS: Here are two ideas to help your children get more comfortable writing. You will really enjoy the "Peanut Butter / Jelly Sandwich Instruction Manual" and the activity at the end. Your children will love it and so will you.

Sara Ratliff shares a lot of great information for home school families. She explains how she does not use a curriculum but creates her own using a mix of different resources. She gives an idea about scheduling but still remaining flexible and how she accomplishes both. Sarah and her family live in Tyler, Texas and her husband takes an active role in the schooling process.

This interview is important for parents and teachers that work with children and students struggling with ADD, ADHD, Autism, Aspergers, anger management, and many other challenges that impede their learning. For home school parents, I think the first thing you have to do is build a solid relationship with your children. The monumental challenge for parents of children with these setbacks comes first at the relationship level. Lisa is teaching parents and teachers how to work with students that have these challenges so that they can build those relationships first so that the homeschool learning can begin to take place again.