If you’re learning about the Presidents in your homeschool, check out our FREE Presidents of the USA printables. You’ll find over 100 pages of homeschool material including portraits of each president, fact cards, famous quotations for copywork, and a My Presidents Book for your kids to record what they’ve learned. […]
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Carolyn Leiloglou is a homeschooling mom of 4 and best-selling author. You’ll love her new middle grade fantasy novel, Beneath the Swirling Sky! Today we discuss why homeschooling provides the ideal environment for nurturing creativity in our kids and how we can best support them in exploring their own creative passions. […]
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Winter is a great time for people to observe birds, but it can be a tough season for the birds! Some species have left for warmer climates. A few remain to brave out the cold. For the birds who don’t fly south, such as the Blue Jay, Black-Capped Chickadee, Nuthatch, […]
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Tending to our physical, spiritual, emotional, and mental health is essential to avoiding homeschool mom burnout. When we care for our own needs, we are better able to show up for our children in a healthy way and we experience more joy (and less overwhelm) in our homeschool days. But […]
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Ever have one of those days where all the good things you wanted to do didn’t get done? Or is it just me? I usually end up moving those things to the next day’s plans. And, sometimes, by the third or fourth move, they get done out of sheer willpower […]
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If you’ve been around here for any length of time, you know I love year-end reflections in all their forms! Today I’m excited to share what posts were most popular on the Homeschool Compass blog this year. Thank you to all of you who have read these articles and shared […]
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Ginny Yurich is a homeschooling mom of 5 and founder of 1000 Hours Outside, a global movement designed to help families reclaim childhood and make outside play a priority. Ginny is the author of several books including 1000 Hours Outside: Activities to Match Screen Time with Green Time and her […]
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Today we are delighted to welcome Danielle Hitchen to the Homeschool Compass blog. Danielle is a homeschooling mom of 3 who makes her home near Washington, D.C. She is the founder of Catechesis Books and author of the Baby Believer series as well as the newly released, Sacred Seasons: A […]
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Higher education is big business, with college costs averaging $13,000 more per year now than they did in the 1970s. Given that most parents don’t want to see their children waste money on a bad fit, they may feel pressure to find out everything they can about a school before […]
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Joy Prouty lives on a tiny island off the coast of Washington where she and her husband homeschool their 7 children. Joy is an artist, photographer, filmmaker, and mentor with a gift for inviting women into vulnerability and helping them experience transformation and healing. In her new book, Practicing Presence: […]
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