Family-Style Homeschooling
Browse through articles on how to learn with your whole family together, how to do hands-on schooling, and what it means to be a parent-learner instead of a parent-teacher in your homeschool. All together this adds up to building a Layers of Learning homeschool.
Every Layers of Learning unit includes a Library List, a selection of Exploration, and a Show What You Know Section.
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Sometime between the 1960s and 1970s in the United States the teaching of geography and history was melded into something
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The best science curriculum for homeschools teaches science literacy and teaches future scientists how to do science. It should integrate the scientific method, experiements, “recipes”, reading, and notebooking.
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The best homeschool history curriculum has four ingredients: it is chronological, interesting, connects to the human story, and connects to the student.
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This is a free 21 page printable pdf packet for planning your homeschool. It is useful for new homeschoolers and
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Take a minute to write down WHY you are homeschooling. This may seem unimportant, but I can promise you that at some point in time you will appreciate the few minutes you took to write down WHY. A good WHY can get you through hard times and help you have joy in your homeschool.
We get asked often whether Layers of Learning is a Christian curriculum. The short answer is no. Most people interpret
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The four year cycle is a method of organizing a curriculum or school course. Students learn the entire scope of history, geography, science, and arts over a four year period, then they repeat their studies twice more before graduation.
If you purchased Layers of Learning units in the PDF form, you may want to print them, put them into
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Great Books are the best books in literature of all time. They have big important ideas and you can read them in your homeschool.
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Here’s a list of basic materials you need to start Layers of Learning. Most things you probably already have on hand. Also, get a printable checklist for basic supplies.
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If you have trouble finding perfect library books to go with Layers of Learning, take advantage of the spine books with correlation charts, YouTube playlists, and other resources you’ll find right here.
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