16 Homeschool Hacks + Tips to Help Keep it Simple + Easy! ⚡️ 

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Probably because those moms are too busy teaching and driving their kids places. Try finding moms irl in local homeschool groups. This will be way more valuable than a video online.

Grace & Grit is a good channel on here for middle and high school.

FYI, I am able to do 4 days a week with the Good and Beautiful curriculum and complete the curriculum within the same schedule the public school system has. We take 2 months in the summer and I plan the next school year. We do 4 lessons in math and language arts each week. 1 science lesson family co-op for my younger kids and 2 history lessons. This leaves either Monday for a cleaning day or Friday for an errand day. I homeschool 4 kids, 2 are in highschool and are mostly independent.

Oh, thank you for sharing your schedule! :) It sounds like your days are full, but not overwhelming! That's my goal!! :) @@breanne2117

Sounds like a fantastic schedule. What time do you start and finish for the four days? Thanks ❤​@@breanne2117

We do this too! Fridays are for outside, music lessons and the library or something like that. Sometimes we go on nature walks and sometimes we do art cooking projects. My kids enjoy earning lego building days as well.

Same! I have 4 kids. One reason I love The Good amd the beautiful is because there's only 120 lessons. So much flexibility! We do lessons mon-thurs. In the mornings we do group subjects. I rotate science and histor, or whatever unit we're working on. Throw in 5 mins of a Bible story and a chapter of read aloud if we have time. We usually spend an hour together, then they move on to language arts and math. We break to go play outside (while I do housework) and for lunch. Normally all they have left to do after lunch is one subject (so 30-45 mins of work) Fridays are my town day. I need that day! They do things that don't require me. They can practice their music, play outside, read, whatever. As long as they don't bug me all day 😂 We also don't do lessons on co-op or field trip days. We still manage to finish our curriculum. We still technically count Fridays as a school day, because my state requires 180 days. When we do 4 actual lesson days a week... we follow the "year round homeschooling" schedule of school for 6 weeks, get a week off. Repeat to get 6 "6 week increments in" leaving a nice summer break and 2 or 3 weeks for Christmas. I also just discovered this year, outsourcing their science and history. They do Power Homeschool for science and History. It's tailored to their ages, it doesn't require me, and I know they're getting what they need in those subjects, if our day derails and we don't get to it in group subjects. It gives us more liberty to do fun unit studies and take our time without feeling like we're not covering enough ground. That was meant to be a short comment... sorry 😂

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You need to find out the requirements for the state of California. She doesn't live in California, so her answer will do that no good. I used to live in Delaware where you only have to take attendance and you turn nothing into the state except your attendance data. Now I live in Maryland which is much more regulated. Instead of directly reporting to the state, I report to an homeschool umbrella that reviews a portfolio. As you can see, the standards are very different depending on the state. Just Google homeschooling in California.

You need to ask yourself if and why you want your child to meet public school standards, and which standards.

You can look up the standards on your state board of education website but most states don’t require homeschoolers to follow the public school scope and sequence. Tons of kids in public schools are ahead of or behind grade level and teachers scaffold to meet them where they are (or they get left behind when the class moves on).

Not Consumed is wonderful!

The good and the beautiful language arts has been fantastic in my experience. A very Charlotte mason approach with a really solid foundation for grammar, writing, along with art and geography.

Have you looked into Brave Writer?

I'm there with you! MasterBooks is affordable but just not working for one of my children, everything else is simply out of my budget or looks soooo dull!

Writing and Rhetoric has worked really well for my fourth grader!

Check out the writing class by Dr. Lybrand!