Getting Started Archives - Page 4 of 5 - North Carolinians for Home Education

The NCHE Leadership Series part 1

by Sarah Hicks | Aug 31, 2020 | Culture, NCHE Membership, Getting Started, Community, NCHE Blog

Whether it’s in person or online, it’s always fun when North Carolinians for Home Education board members and leaders have an opportunity to get together! We love serving you, and we enjoy one another’s company. Although we serve in different roles at NCHE and in...

All about Morning Baskets

by Amy Sloan | Aug 24, 2020 | Resources, Creative Ideas, Getting Started, NCHE Blog

By guest contributor Amy Sloan Morning baskets are one way that homeschool parents, especially parents with multiple children, keep materials organized and in one place. It is an effective way for each member of your homeschool to begin the school day on the same...

How Does Learning Happen?

by Sarah Hicks | Jul 28, 2020 | Community, Getting Started, Peace, Encouragement, NCHE Blog

by Sarah Hicks, July 2020 Scores of books have been written on educational philosophy. A lot of those resources make education harder than it has to be—especially since most people already have an educational philosophy, even if they’ve never realized it or named it....

We Can Help You Get Started Homeschooling

by Matthew McDill | Jul 17, 2020 | Considering Homeschooling, Getting Started, NCHE Blog

So many parents in North Carolina are now choosing to homeschool that the state site for opening a homeschool was unable to process any more requests earlier this month. [Fortunately, things seem to be working again]. According to Governor Cooper’s recent...

What Is a Co-Op?

by Sarah Hicks | Jul 6, 2020 | Creative Ideas, Getting Started, Community, NCHE Blog

Co-op is an abbreviation that stands for co-operative learning. In the context of homeshcool, co-ops are as unique and varied as the homeschoolers that comprise them. In general, co-ops are at least 2 families who agree to get together regularly with the intention of...

The Year We Started Homeschooling

by Sarah Hicks | Jun 2, 2020 | NCHE Blog, Parenting, Getting Started

This week, as I was giving my son a haircut on our front porch, I had an epiphany. While I was trimming, we were talking about when his dad and I were his age. That’s when it occurred to me: both my husband and my sister homeschooled for just one year. Of course I...