Home Education Blog - page 29
Monumental Victory: Puerto Rico Declares Homeschooling a Fundamental Right
Posted in News on June 20, 2017
The Homeschool Legal Defense Association reported that Puerto Rico is the first (among U.S. states and territories) to recognize homeschooling as a fundamental right. In other U.S. states, legal groups like the HSLDA have argued that homeschooling is a fundamental right of parents. U.S. citizens should have the right to direct the upbringing and education of their Read More »
50 Ways to Teach Your Preschooler without a Curriculum
Posted in Homeschooling on June 20, 2017
During preschool, your child's brain grows explosively. Learning isn't limited to a few dedicated hours of curriculum-driven activity. Even play is learning. Watch for ways to help them learn all day long. Alphabet Letters and Sounds 1. Form letters with playdough. 2. Sing the ABC song when you wash hands. 3. Play with foam or Read More »
Integrating Kids Yoga into Your Homeschool
Posted in Homeschooling on June 20, 2017
Yoga is a system of exercises that helps to improve overall health and wellbeing by building strength, flexibility, and awareness in both mind and body. Breath work, physical postures or asanas, and simple meditation are practiced by people of all ages and in many different states of health and levels of fitness. Yoga practitioners have Read More »
Elon Musk Hated the Public School System So Much He Created His Own School
Posted in Unschooling on June 19, 2017
Just like most highly successful innovators, he's been called controversial. Eccentric. Brash. Several years ago he was labeled all three when he started his own primary education school, the Ad Astra School. If you're familiar with the principles behind unschooling, you'll probably notice that his school sounds a lot more like an "un-school" than a Read More »
Interpersonal Intelligence: The Social Butterfly
Posted in Teaching on June 19, 2017
Are you really good at making friends? Are you that person with whom your friends always confide? Are you great at sales? If you describe yourself as a “people person,” you have an interpersonal intelligence profile. The Progressive, Modern Understanding of Intelligence Throughout much of history, intelligence has been thought of as the general capacity Read More »
