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Let’s play! ✏️ 📚 Morning Basket OR Just

Let’s play! ✏️

📚 Morning Basket OR Just Dive In?
🍎 Unit Studies OR Workbooks?
📅 Year-Round OR Traditional Calendar?

Tell me your picks in the comments! 👇
(And feel free to add your own “this or that!”)

#homeschool #homeeducator

Keeping it simple, personal, and meaningful — ho

Keeping it simple, personal, and meaningful — homeschool portfolio edition.

I keep a homeschool portfolio because it’s important to document and tell the story of their learning! Here’s what is typically included:

⋒Math - printout summary of their scores (we use Nicole the Math Lady, so all their work has been entered online).
⋒Exposition (Literature / Writing) - Booklist and 10 essays; basically I keep any type of original writing
⋒Research - projects like science fair entries, lab journals, nature journals
⋒Debate - projects like map drawing, economics, debate speeches.
⋒Grammar (Latin) - We do not keep much work because it’s mainly rote memory vocab and exercise practice. However, as they advance, I do keep 1-2 longer translation pieces.
⋒Reasoning - we don’t keep much work, because mainly reading, conversations, and workbook pages, and a few projects.

I also keep all blue book exam questions and responses, as well as any awards, important event invites, and anything else that was meaningful to their school year.

For large projects, such as posters and builds, science fair, and individual event speeches, I take a photo and store that in a computer folder or print out a page with the picture.

Once everything has been sorted and collected, I label a folder inside a hanging file and use a file box to hold 4-6 years for each child.

HOT TIP: Sort papers once per quarter, so you don’t have to do it ALL at the end of the year like me!

#homeschool #homeschooling #Homeschoolcollective #homeschoolmom #organization

📚 Unboxing next year’s homeschool books! **I

End of School Year Celebration! Every year looks

End of School Year Celebration!

Every year looks different. We’ve had scavenger hunts, escape room games, gallery walks, and more.

This year we did a homemade PIÑATA!

However you do it, take time to celebrate the BIG WIN that is the end of a year of learning!

How do you celebrate the end of school!?

#endofschool #schoolsout #homeschool #homeschooling #homeschoolmom #homeschoollife #celebrate #thehappynow

Does your child have a head full of ideas but stru

Does your child have a head full of ideas but struggles to put them on paper coherently?

That was my experience with my own kids—brimming with ideas but lacking structure.

Through guided lessons and repeatable tools, their writing transformed into organized, meaningful stories and essays.

I’m thrilled to offer this journey to your child through my newly launched online writing class for grades 4–8. Starting this fall, September 2025!

We’ll use the IEW’s Medieval History-Based Writing curriculum to build strong writing skills step-by-step.

💻 Enrollment is now open—click the link in my bio for more details!

#HomeschoolWriting #IEWInstructor #CreativeWriting #OnlineWritingClass #MiddleSchoolWriting

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