Field Trip Planning Tips

by Katie Julius With a very active, hands-on “little learner,” field trips are an essential part of our school year. Planning comes naturally to me, so I enjoy this process. I know it doesn’t for everyone, so I hope the information shared below will help even the most...

Out & About: Monterey Bay

by Katie Julius I’ve always felt that “home”schooling was a bit of a misnomer. For our family, much of our learning doesn’t actually happen at home! We love to explore all of the opportunities for hands-on learning available to us in California and are always looking...

Schooling Through Summer

by Katie Julius The start of summer usually signals the end of school bells, homework, and school drop-off, but for many homeschooling families, summer often provides additional learning opportunities while participating in a variety of traditional summer activities....

Re-Discovering Your Home Town

by Karen D. Koch I chuckled while watching Pixar’s Wall-E with my kids the other day when the captain and other characters said incredulously, “I didn’t know we had a pool” and “We have a jogging track?” Apparently they had lived on the spaceship Axiom so long they...