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Learning From Life, In Freedom!

Welcome to Homeschool Group Hug. We are on a mission to explain and encourage learning from life, without school. I want to encourage and support you on your home schooling or any other alternative education mission. Homeschoolers, unschoolers, worldschoolers or home educators, it largely depends on what country you're in and local word preferences. We've home educated in the UK, Australia, US and all over the world. I really don't care what … read more

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Best Homeschool Workbooks, age, grade, subject

Homeschool Workbooks

Homeschool workbooks have been our favourite way to formally educate the children, right from kindergarten to high school.  That's my favourite way and the kids' favourite way. Workbooks allow mom to be a little bit hands-off sometimes, the heavy work is done already and we moms may just be able to cook lunch while the kids get stuck in.  Workbooks can cover just about any topic, they're cheap, light, easy to travel with, and can do multiple duty in kicking educational goals. While your child is filling in his science workbook he's … [Read More...]

Photography Courses and Resources for Homeschoolers Kids Beginners

Photography Courses for Kids and Beginners and Learning About Photography

Photography is a wonderful thing for your kids to learn, all kids, not just homeschoolers. Photography courses can get you started quickly on your road to mastering the art and science of photography, as a hobby, as a job skill or as a business tool. In this post we look at free photography course, other resources for budding photographers, cameras for starting in photography, resources for studying photograhy and what other gear new photographers may need. I also asked a professional wedding photographer and mum for tips in getting your … [Read More...]

Why We Didn’t Opt Out of School (Reasons to Homeschool)

Hi, good morning from a rainy Romania. Occasional wet days are a great excuse to stay in and write blog posts so I want to explain today why we opted out of school and why we opted out of normal, or rather why we didn't. It's something that's been on my mind since Jessica wrote this fabulous posts about grandparents and their support, or negativity towards, alternative lifestyles. It's mostly about travel, but translates well into homeschooling, unschooling or worldschooling families. There are assumptions about reasons to … [Read More...]

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Kitchen Science. Fun Science Ideas at Home!

Most of us have a kitchen of some sort, right? Well, you can use your kitchen to teach your kids science every day. I don't mean lecturing them, making notes and doing experiments that have to be written up. Just talk to them, constantly, about what is going on right in front of them, all the time. Sometimes maybe buy them a few props and science kits, you can find some great home science resources in this post, but much learning comes from every-day chatter. I've found that it is the quickest and best way to get all sorts of useful knowledge … [Read More...]

Homeschooling London. Our Day

A long time ago I wrote a post called What Does a Homeschool Day Look Like. It's over on our other blog, World Travel Family, and is enormously popular. The homeschooling posts are always popular, so thank YOU for reading, liking and sharing. I thought it would be nice to share a homeschooling day, or lifestyle, in London to go with that. Homeschooling in London is fabulous and UK homeschool regulations are a dream. We look at homeschooling in London, places to go, groups to join and resources for you to use along with telling you what our … [Read More...]

My 7 Year Old Can’t Read

Hi, glad you're here, my 7-year-old can't read either. In fact, go back a couple of years and my first 7-year-old couldn't read. It seems to be an epidemic, this non-reading 7-year-old thing, and it seems to worry mums of 6-year-olds and 8-year-olds too. I'm here to make you feel better and maybe help you help your child to learn to read. 7 Year Old Can't Read Child 1 was in school and couldn't read in year 2. So bad was his literacy that he wasn't doing any maths through total inability to read the questions. Child 2 had been … [Read More...]

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Fun Homeschool Science Resources

All of the fun homeschool science resources on this page have been tried and tested by real homeschoolers, they have been given the thumbs up from me and the kids. I'm not talking about curriculums, work sheets, homeschool workbooks and online learning programmes, that's not what I want to talk about here. The best homeschool science resources, I think, are the fun ones, the games, toys, books, kits and sets. To be perfect they must come with great instructions and ideas for projects, they help out a lot if Mum ( or Dad) maybe … [Read More...]

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Why Online School is Better

A few thoughts and reasons why online school is better. We are loving our online school. It's so much better than a real school, and by that I mean a bricks and mortar traditional school building, that I feel I need to share and explain. I'm also of the opinion that for my older kids, they're at the top end of high school age now, online school is better than homeschooling. As a homeschool (world school, unschool) advocate, that's not something I ever thought I'd say. Reasons Online School is Better Than Real School My kids are in an … [Read More...]

Homeschool Plan & Application Australia Year 2

This is the first Australian homeschool application or plan I ever wrote. I didn't really know a huge amount about homeschooling back then, but this application was approved when my son was seven or eight years old. He's now a very happily homeschooled teen studying for iGCSEs in the UK. You can take a look, get some ideas for your own homeschool plan or template. I wasn't a professional blogger, website creator, and writer back then and I haven't altered this plan much for online use. It's almost as it was when I submitted it for homeschool … [Read More...]

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Where to Find Teachers, Online Tutors, and Classes for Kids Learning at Home

A lot of parents will be wanting information on finding the best teachers, tutors, and classes for kids learning at home. There are a lot of reluctant homeschoolers around the world right now. Parents who didn't ever want to homeschool, suddenly have their children at home. They're stressed out, worried about their kids educational prospects, their exam revision and study. I've homeschooled from birth to high-school. I know a few tricks I can share with you. Below you will find a list of places to look, sign up, or enroll, with tutors and … [Read More...]

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Wildschooling

There are just too many diverse ways to homeschool or home-educate. Here we investigate and try to give a definition of wildschooling. What is wildschooling and how do you start wildschooling? Is there such a thing as a wildschooling definition and what is the underlying philosophy of homeschooling, with a little more wild? We tend to use "homeschool" to cover everything here on this site, but in the 16 years we've been educating outside school, we've done a fair amount of wildschooling. maybe. We talk about how we think we've incorporated … [Read More...]

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