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Homeschooling Maths, from Preschool to Highschool

By Alyson Long Last Modified: November 1, 2024 Leave a Comment Any post on this site may contain affiliate links. If you use them, they cost you nothing extra. We make a small commission.

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When I started writing this post I was mum to a 13-year-old and an 11-year-old, both homeschooled kids. The elder son went to school briefly and, in all honesty, learnt absolutely nothing there, not even how to read. My younger son has never been inside a school, ever. They have been unschooled, homeschooled or worldschooled, […]

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Homeschool Curriculum

By Alyson Long Last Modified: February 20, 2024 Leave a Comment Any post on this site may contain affiliate links. If you use them, they cost you nothing extra. We make a small commission.

Homeschooling curriculum

What is a homeschool curriculum? A curriculum is the content of a course of study. Countries and states have their own government-approved curriculum, as homeschoolers we may be compelled to follow this standard state school curriculum, or we may be allowed to write our curriculum tailored to our individual child’s needs. In some cases, our […]

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Homeschooling vs Unschooling vs Worldschooling

By Alyson Long Last Modified: February 5, 2024 Leave a Comment Any post on this site may contain affiliate links. If you use them, they cost you nothing extra. We make a small commission.

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Homeschooling, worldschooling and unschooling are all progressive forms of education, gaining popularity in the modern world. Unschooling and worldschooling are types of homeschooling, also known as home education. Other forms of education outside school also exist, for instance, wildschooling, lifeschooling, and farm schooling. In this post we break down homeschooling, worldschooling, unschooling, online schooling, wildschooling […]

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Fun Homeschool Science Resources

By homeschool group hug Last Modified: February 5, 2024 1 Comment Any post on this site may contain affiliate links. If you use them, they cost you nothing extra. We make a small commission.

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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. As a professional scientist, these homeschool science resources, books, toys, and games all have real value in helping your child learn and understand science. I’m not talking […]

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Aboriginal Culture and History. Djabugay or Tjapukai People

By homeschool group hug Last Modified: October 11, 2022 11 Comments Any post on this site may contain affiliate links. If you use them, they cost you nothing extra. We make a small commission.

The Djabugay or Tjapukai people are an Australian Aboriginal rainforest tribe from the wet tropics of northern Australia. The Djabugay people have names from the Djabugay language and transmit their tribal cultures from generation to generation. The Djabugay language was spoken in the Cairns, Port Douglas, Mareeba, Kuranda and Atherton areas, with regional dialects between local […]

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Educational Movies and TV Shows For Homeschoolers

By homeschool group hug Last Modified: October 9, 2022 1 Comment Any post on this site may contain affiliate links. If you use them, they cost you nothing extra. We make a small commission.

Educational Movies and TV Shows for Kids and Homeschoolers Homeschool

Educational movies and TV shows for homeschoolers, or for anyone else, are an awesome way to get the kids learning without them even realising they’re doing “school”. I call it stealth learning and I’m a bit of a stealth learning ninja. One of the things I love about educational movies and TV shows is their […]

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Making Homemade Snow

By homeschool group hug Last Modified: October 9, 2022 Leave a Comment Any post on this site may contain affiliate links. If you use them, they cost you nothing extra. We make a small commission.

making homemade snow

We’ve been making homemade snow. I had a moment of self doubt the other day, would my boys be troubled, therapy requiring, adults because I’ve never made them homemade playdough? I did what I usually do and put the question to the online homeschool community, most of the mums voted with a yes. OK, so […]

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Homeschool Geography

By homeschool group hug Last Modified: October 7, 2022 1 Comment Any post on this site may contain affiliate links. If you use them, they cost you nothing extra. We make a small commission.

Homeschool geography resources

My home is stuffed with homeschool geography resources, we travel a lot, so we have books, photo albums, memorabilia and trinkets from every corner of the globe. The children have grown up immersed in talk of Asia and South America, there is an illustrated map of Tibet on the wall and they know all about […]

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Wax Resist Painting Technique

By homeschool group hug Last Modified: September 29, 2022 1 Comment Any post on this site may contain affiliate links. If you use them, they cost you nothing extra. We make a small commission.

We learnt a new technique at homeschool group this morning. The people at Cairns Regional Art Gallery let our group have a go at the wax resist painting technique as part of our gallery tour. It’s always good to try out new methods of expressing yourself and creating beautiful things. How to Experiment with Wax […]

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Cattana Wetlands Cairns. Cairns Homeschool Group

By homeschool group hug Last Modified: September 26, 2022 2 Comments Any post on this site may contain affiliate links. If you use them, they cost you nothing extra. We make a small commission.

This week Cairns Homeschool Group’s outing to The Cattana Wetlands taught us all a lot about wetland habitats, native flora, it’s uses and the amount of work involved in reclaiming these former sand mine sites as a natural reserve. We had a passionate and knowledgeable guide who freely gave up her time to teach us […]

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Monopoly as a Homeschool Resource

By homeschool group hug Last Modified: May 12, 2023 Leave a Comment Any post on this site may contain affiliate links. If you use them, they cost you nothing extra. We make a small commission.

Monopoly as a homeschool resource. How to use Monopoly in Homeschooling

Some homeschool days nobody feels like doing much, do they? Kids dig their heels in, Mum gets frazzled, a battle of wills develops. This is when to persuade the children that a family board game such as Monopoly would be a really good plan. They will have no idea that they are being educated as […]

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How Do Homeschooled Kids Sit Exams?

By Alyson Long Last Modified: September 23, 2022 9 Comments Any post on this site may contain affiliate links. If you use them, they cost you nothing extra. We make a small commission.

How do homeschoolers sit exams

Firstly I’d like to say that exams are mostly not compulsory nor really necessary, there are many ways to do life and the regular school system is just one of them. Should the child (or parent) feel they need paper qualifications similar to regular school leavers, there are ways. So how do homeschooled kids sit […]

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Photography Courses for Kids and Beginners, Learning About Photography

By Alyson Long Last Modified: February 8, 2024 4 Comments Any post on this site may contain affiliate links. If you use them, they cost you nothing extra. We make a small commission.

Photography Courses and Resources for Homeschoolers Kids Beginners

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 […]

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Myths About Homeschooling

By homeschool group hug Last Modified: December 2, 2022 Leave a Comment Any post on this site may contain affiliate links. If you use them, they cost you nothing extra. We make a small commission.

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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 The Biggest Myths About Homeschooling Most myths and misconceptions about homeschooling come from a lack of understanding of what homeschooling is and what it is not. Homeschooling is simply […]

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Minecraft Homeschool Review

By homeschool group hug Last Modified: September 14, 2022 7 Comments Any post on this site may contain affiliate links. If you use them, they cost you nothing extra. We make a small commission.

Love it or hate it, Minecraft is part of most of our lives these days. I bought a Minecraft account for my elder son when he was just 7 and he’s been hooked ever since, my younger son followed at 6. At times I’ve regretted it, sure, I’ve ranted about the amount of time they want […]

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Where To Learn To Code?

By Alyson Long Last Modified: November 14, 2022 Leave a Comment Any post on this site may contain affiliate links. If you use them, they cost you nothing extra. We make a small commission.

Where to learn to code HTML CSS

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 […]

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Free Courses for Homeschoolers

By Alyson Long Last Modified: September 11, 2022 4 Comments Any post on this site may contain affiliate links. If you use them, they cost you nothing extra. We make a small commission.

Free courses suitable for hmeschoolers marine science

For days now I’ve had a post about free photography courses and resources for homescholers almost ready to publish, but technical glitches are sadly keeping that one in draft mode. It’s been a bad week on my websites, the homeschooling one and all the others, so I thought today I’d tell you about the marine […]

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Teaching Kids About Islam

By homeschool group hug Last Modified: September 8, 2022 4 Comments Any post on this site may contain affiliate links. If you use them, they cost you nothing extra. We make a small commission.

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Teaching children about all world religions is the key to understanding the world, its history and the way things are today. These days the media presents us with a very warped image of Islam and there are far too many misunderstandings and prejudices stemming from ignorance. If we all took the time to learn a […]

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Cairns Regional Art Gallery. Cairns Homeschool Group Outing.

By homeschool group hug Last Modified: August 31, 2022 Leave a Comment Any post on this site may contain affiliate links. If you use them, they cost you nothing extra. We make a small commission.

The Cairns Homeschool Group enjoyed a guided tour of some of the exhibits at Cairns Regional Art Gallery last week. We had one of our best turn outs of the year, obviously art is popular with parents and children. Admission for a tour was $5/child, adults were free, the admission fee included a hands on […]

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Homeschool Resources

By homeschool group hug Last Modified: February 20, 2024 2 Comments Any post on this site may contain affiliate links. If you use them, they cost you nothing extra. We make a small commission.

Hohomeschool resources

This page is the hub of our website for finding homeschool resources. We have posts on this site detailing homeschool science resources, geography resources and so on. Below we also give you some useful links to online learning resources, curriculum, supplies, and books. If you can’t find the resource or topic you need below, do […]

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Kitchen Science. Fun Science Ideas at Home!

By homeschool group hug Last Modified: February 22, 2024 Leave a Comment Any post on this site may contain affiliate links. If you use them, they cost you nothing extra. We make a small commission.

Kitchen Science easy homeschool science ideas

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 […]

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School is the Worst Place to Get an Education

By Alyson Long Last Modified: November 13, 2022 5 Comments Any post on this site may contain affiliate links. If you use them, they cost you nothing extra. We make a small commission.

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Deep thought is something I suffer from, often the 3 am lying awake variety. This morning’s episode brought me to an idea that I felt big enough to share. I apologise if somebody, somewhere has said this same thing before with figures, statistics and research. It’s new to me, and I hope to you. My […]

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Homeschool Science

By homeschool group hug Last Modified: November 24, 2022 Leave a Comment Any post on this site may contain affiliate links. If you use them, they cost you nothing extra. We make a small commission.

Homeschool Science  Some potential homeschoolers are put off before they even start by the idea that you can’t teach science in a homeschool environment, without a school laboratory. This is yet another of those silly myths about homeschooling. You can teach science at home, it’s not so hard. My homeschooled kids went on to sit […]

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