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One of the challenges of home education is not simply what to teach, but how to hold the whole year in your hands without becoming completely overwhelmed by it.

There are books to re...

The turning points of the year offers children so much more than a pleasant seasonal activity. They offer a way of understanding time, creation, history, and faith. Midsummer is one of those beautiful, full and ri...

Next week in Exploring Nature With Children is ‘Museum Week’.

Here are some helpful links for your studies this week:

June has a particular feeling of almost-summer: tall grasses, the hedgerows heavy, full and green, evenings that seem to go on and on. The children are often half in the house, and half out of it, trailing in grass, muddy knees, sticky fingers, and pockets full of treasures.

June can also bring a sense of loosening: the school year year is not quite finished, su...

The hedgerows are thick with green, the bees are busy, the grasses are high, and suddenly summer feels properly here. For many home-educating families, it is also the point in the year when rhythms begin to loosen a little. Le...