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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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 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...]
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...]
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...]
Where To Learn To Code?
Coding is key in making money in various ways. Coding is not difficult to learn. Coding is not taught enough in schools. But where to learn to code? You can teach yourself to code easily using free resources and courses. The key with coding is practice and exposure. I taught myself one coding language over 20 years ago. I learned from this book. I've taught my kids the basics of that coding language when they were very young. They've taught themselves other coding languages through their natural tech interest and through courses, online … [Read More...]
Homeschooling in Houston Texas
Can you homeschool in Houston Texas? Yes, you can. To find out more about homeschooling in Houston we talked to a local mum (and former teacher) responsible for her own 3 homeschoolers in Houston, Harris County, Texas. This homeschool mum tells us how she homeschools, why, what facilities, groups, and field trips exist in and around Houston for homeschoolers. We like to connect homeschooling families from all over the world on this homeschooling blog. If you'd like to contribute your story, from your city, town, or country, get in … [Read More...]
Myths About Homeschooling
There are myths about education that necessarily become myths about homeschooling because they are closely related. We'll debunk the following myths about homeschooling in this post Homeschooling is expensiveSchool is the only route to exam success and universityHomeschooling is simply doing school at homeHomeschooled children won't be socialisedPeople who homeschool or were homeschooled are weirdHomeschooling takes up loads of time The Biggest Myths About Homeschooling Most myths and misconceptions about homeschooling come from a … [Read More...]
Pulling My 7 Year Old Out Of School
I'm writing this post today to help you with the mental anguish and turmoil you're suffering about pulling your child out of school. I did it and it's all worked out perfectly. I was able to take my child out of school, legally and permanently, when he was 7 years old and it was one of the best things I ever did. I had one of those babies that nobody could call easy. I loved him with all my heart, but he was never given to me to make life leisurely. He was a baby that never slept, an unstoppable toddler, and just an all-around ball of … [Read More...]