Canada Homeschools

An introduction to season 3 of the podcast, some fall field trip ideas, a fall essential oil recipe and more! Keep scrolling for a link to “Have your best year Ever” if you haven’t had a listen yet- a good reminder for the start of the school year.

Dover coloring books are great for unit studies, and can help prepare your kids for a fall night of gazing at the night sky. Your library has lots of autumn picture books, too. Scroll down for links to Pinterest posts for essential oil recipes and more.

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Essential Oil Recipes on Pinterest:

Fall Essential Oil Blends

All Purpose Cleaner Recipe (I add baking soda):

DIY All-Purpose Cleaner With Lemon and Lavender (mommypotamus.com)

Here’s the episode that’s a great reminder with some tips on having your best homeschool year ever:

https://www.canadahomeschools.com/episodes/best-year-ever

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We are far from perfect parents! But after parenting our four children for over twenty years, we have some things to share. This is a borrowed conversation from Conversations with Chris at Pinewoods Chapel. Join Rowan and Chris as we talk about our kids, some values that were important to us, financial literacy, and much more:

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Learn how books can be a great way to educate about history, social issues and character, and some things to look for when building your family library.

In this episode we get to meet Rowan’s mom, who homeschooled her and her siblings, and she shares with us how she was a working homeschool mom before the internet and mommy bloggers were invented.

In case you’re interested in running a day care yourself, my friend Megan Elford over at Welcome to the Zoo has a free ebook to help you get started and possibly think of things you may not have thought of. You can find it here: https://welcometothezoo.ca/ebook-download/

Here’s an interesting curriculum for preschoolers (Charlotte Mason approach) that has tweaked our interest:

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This is part 2 of our conversation with Janet LoSole, author of Adventure by Chicken Bus: An Unschooling Odyssey through Central America. During this episode we learn what surprised Janet in terms of her own learning on their Central American journey and we talk about the idea of World Schooling. Janet gives us 4 tips for going on adventures like this with your kids.

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Should your student take a gap year after high school? Rowan discusses the reasons a gap year can be beneficial (yes, she mentions frontal lobe development-no surprise there!) and some of the concerns people have about the idea of a gap year. She also discusses some cautions or things to be aware of if your student decides to take a gap year.

Let us know in the comments below if your children have taken a gap year, or if you are “pro” gap-year or “against”.

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Home – The Canadian Homeschooler

Rowan and Lisa Marie talk about the business of The Canadian Homeschooler, and how Lisa Marie runs it while homeschooling her 5 children.