Elementary


Our Elementary Homeschool Curriculum

Our Elementary Homeschool Curriculum

Before I design a curriculum you need to know your goals. You build a curriculum around your family values and educational goals. Our elementary curriculum is designed to meet our children's unique and specific needs and work towards our family’s goals in the context of everyday living; and a curriculum ...

Group Homeschool Coaching Session ~ Save the Date!

Group Homeschool Coaching Session ~ Save the Date!

To purchase a copy of the audio recording of this session click here. There has been a keen interest in my group homeschool coaching idea. So, let's try it together, shall we? Most of you who contact me for homeschool coaching are just getting started or near the beginning of ...

Breathe In ~ Breathe Out

Breathe In ~ Breathe Out

Outward activities - when our energy is engaged in the world (which may be in or out of the home), alternated with inward activities - when we fill that energy with quiet, is a pattern I've established in my personal time management and in our parenting and homeschooling in general.

The New Normal is Flux

The New Normal is Flux

As much as I have resisted this in the past, flux, more than ever, is my reality.

Homeschooling in Montreal

Homeschooling in Montreal

Where we usually live, in our community on the beautiful Gaspé peninsula - with mountains, rivers, and outdoors aplenty - there no other homeschoolers, that we know of. Notice how I started off with what I love about where I live? Because that's why we live there. We didn't move ...

Simplicity Parenting ecourse giveaway

Simplicity Parenting ecourse giveaway

Last winter I read the popular parenting book Simplicity Parenting: Using the Extraordinary Power of Less to Raise Calmer, Happier, and More Secure Kids. I wrote a short review of it also, which you can read here. In that review I wrote this short summary: I definitely recommend (this book) ...

How to Start a Homeschool Hiking Group ~ An Interview

How to Start a Homeschool Hiking Group ~ An Interview

Today I'm happy to introduce you to my friend Louise Johnson. Louise started a homeschool hiking group in their community and I asked her to share her experiences in an interview.