Single Mothers Homeschooling: A Series of Articles

I last posted about my article Single Mothers Homeschooling Part 1: Before You Begin, I have added four more articles making it a series, with more articles to come.

Single Mothers Homeschooling Part 2: Homeschooling and the Law
Single Mothers Homeschooling Part 3: Setting up a Portfolio
Single Mothers Homeschooling Part 4: The Socialization Issue
Single Mothers Homeschooling Part [...]

Thanksgiving Break

We are on a break from our typical homeschool schedule this week, but we are still busy learning:

We are learning about budgeting and money matters. We don’t have money to buy gifts for people, because we are having serious money issues this year. Paying bills comes first, and we are still hoping to be able [...]

Single Mothers Homeschooling Part 1: Before You Begin

I wrote this post today on my Single Mom blog, and it can be found here. I will be posting a whole series of articles on the topic of single mothers homeschooling at the Single Mom blog, and I will post here every time one is posted on the other site so that you may [...]

And so it Begins: The Race to Make as Many Homemade Gifts as Possible as a Homeschool Family

And what does this teach?

Creativity; Inventiveness.
Frugality.
Love.
How to make do with what you have.
Reducing waste, reusing materials; Recycling.

We have a few tied fleece children’s throw blankets that we no longer need, so we are going to reuse the materials to make tied fleece pillows for my nieces. I also have a whole box of fluff that [...]

Homeschool History Project

My nephew and I are studying The Wild West and Pioneer Days. We are going to be creating a newspaper from that time period. We may actually do more than one, as there are quite a few topics that we want to touch upon.
Shannon

A Homeschool Thanksgiving

Thanksgiving is right around the corner. I wanted to sahre an experience that I had a few years back with my daughters as young teens.
I had been teaching them to cook for quite a few years, and over time, they learned to make a complete meal.
One Thanksgiving, they told me not to worry. They were [...]