Last Monday was back-to-school week for my family, and our week started out with our first day at Artios Academies, a once-a-week integrated academic and arts program for homeschoolers that we’re participating in along…
Back to School at Guardian Academy: Curriculum & Plans for 2015-2016
We will soon be back to school at Guardian Academy, and lots of changes are taking place this year in our homeschool plans and curriculum choices. Last May we moved…
Fabulous Family Movie Night: The Chronicles of Narnia Series
One of the things that we look forward to as parents is sharing our childhood favorites with our own children. So I couldn’t wait to read C.S. Lewis’s classic Chronicles of Narnia…
Take the Complexity out of Homeschool Co-Ops
Today we wrapped up a semester of Botany with our informal homeschool co-op by taking a scavenger hunt hike with three families who have children close in age to ours. This concept of sharing educational…
Top Homeschool Posts of 2014: Hands-On
Welcome to NextGen Homeschool’s Top Homeschool Posts of 2014 Series! This week we’ll be sharing the top homeschooling topics — and most viewed posts — of last year based on the…
Top Homeschool Posts of 2014: Homeschool 101
Welcome to NextGen Homeschool’s Top Homeschool Posts of 2014 Series! This week we’ll be sharing the top homeschooling topics — and most viewed posts — of last year based on the…
31 Days of Homeschool How-To: Use Co-Ops
Welcome to our October “31 Days” series at NextGen Homeschool: 31 Days of Homeschool How-To Tips! As NextGen Homeschoolers, we remember what it was like to be homeschooled ourselves, and our experiences…
Friday Flashback: There’s a New Teen in Town
We’re technically almost four weeks into the new year, and we haven’t had a “typical” homeschooling week yet! January is historically a very busy travel time for my husband because…
Top Homeschooling Posts of 2013: Hands-On
Welcome to NextGen Homeschool’s Top Homeschooling Posts of 2013 Series! This week we’ll be sharing the top homeschooling topics — and most viewed posts — of last year based on…
Flashback Friday: Guardian Academy’s Unit Study Presentation Day
In our homeschool this year… This year we at Guardian Academy (the little homeschool co-op I’m doing with my sister Elizabeth and her girls) are studying the Middle Ages using…
Book Clubs: A Simple Homeschool Co-Op
Last month I shared five steps to start a homeschool co-op at So You Call Yourself a Homeschooler. This month, I’m sharing how to start a simple book club as a…
Five Steps to Start a Homeschool Co-Op
Last month I shared five reasons to consider starting or joining a homeschool co-op at Today’s Frugal Mom. This month, I’m sharing five steps to start a homeschool co-op based on…
Five Reasons to Consider Homeschool Co-Ops
The concept of homeschool “co-ops” is to “cooperate” with one or more families to share any part of the homeschool educational process. They can be as simple as two families…
Friday Flashback: Projects, lapbooks & more!
In my life this week… it was non-stop action at the Gotcher household! A week ago today, I was driving down to Colorado Springs for a last-minute trip to see…
Friday Flashback: A week of surprises
My theme for this week is… Surprise! In my life this week… My husband had to take a last-minute trip to Dallas for work, leaving Sunday afternoon. I found out…
Hands-On Homeschool: Making corn husk dolls
I recently wrote about how the girls book club co-op I host has chosen to read The Little House Collection by Laura Ingalls Wilder this semester. Another change we made was…
What’s Working: Group presentation days
Back when my mom began homeschooling, I was the eldest child and a junior in high school with lots of prior experience in public speaking. I was in drama club…
What’s Working: Girls Book Club co-op takes off
I have written in the past about how I started my own homeschool co-op last fall — a tween and young readers girls book club — and I feel very…
Friday Flashback: A week of highs and lows
This week was an exhausting rollercoaster ride for my family, complete with exhilarating highs, unexpected turns, and stomach-dropping lows. I debated whether I was still motivated to write today, but…
Starting a Homeschool Co-Op: Getting into the Groove
Last month I wrote a post about starting my own homeschool co-op for the first time — a tween-age Girls Book Club — after my sisters and I addressed the…
Starting a Homeschool Co-Op: Girls Book Club
A couple of weeks ago, my sisters and I addressed the question of cooperative schooling — aka “co-ops” — in an “Ask a NextGen Homeschooler” post. Since that time, the…
Ask a NextGen Homeschooler: What about “co-op” schooling?
Welcome to “Ask a NextGen Homeschooler…” It’s your turn to ask the authors of NextGen Homeschool — four formerly homeschooled moms who are now homeschooling our children — to weigh…
NGHS Journal: History meets art with sugar cube pyramids
The Ward Family — Day 29 — September 14, 2012 Today we met for school at my sister’s house. While the kids worked on their math, I ran to the…