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Get ready to begin your homeschool journey! Read about the advantages of homeschooling, the homeschool laws in Alaska, and get tips to help you get started on the right foot. Get information about homeschool groups and co-ops near you in Alaska and discover educational supports near you. Explore these topics to learn more about home education and how to be successful. We’ve collected the best resources to help you as you begin your Alaskan homeschool journey.

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How to Create a Midde School/High School Political Science Club

Tips for creating a political science club.

Sort the Mail: Pretend Play and Number Recognition

Kids love to pretend and test their limits within boundaries of make believe. Combining pretend play with math is a great way to challenge your kids without making them feel like it’s a test. Pretending to be a postal worker gives the task of sorting meaning and with that meaning their learning is deeper and better retained.

Homeschooling a Large Family: Keeping Sane, Simple, and Scholarly in the Stresses of Life with a Handful

This is an audio recording of a presentation by Amy Beckstead Leonard. Amy gives strategies and ideas for large families that are homeschooling.

Getting Your Homeschool Out of the House

When you’re homeschooling only one child, the house can be a little confining some days. The secret of home education, though, is that it can happen anywhere! So where are you going to take your homeschool today? Mike Smith offers a few suggestions in this podcast.

Classical Ed Books

This is a free email loop for those educating their children with classical materials. Anyone may post want to buy (WTB) or for sale (FS) ads on this list.

Handprint Measuring and Number Lines

A simple activity to teach measuring and number lines. Easy to put together and understand.

Ten Tips from Homeschooling Moms of Four or More

Parents of several children engage in some seriously creative thinking to accomplish ordinary day to day tasks. This article is a collection of tips, gathered from ‘Moms of Many’, and is intended to supply helpful suggestions for homeschooling, maintaining your home, and generally keeping it all in balance.

A Poetry Unit for Preschoolers

This free unit study for preschoolers features poems found in Shel Silverstein's Where the Sidewalk Ends as a text for 10 poetry lessons. Each lesson refers to a poem (so it helps a lot to have access to that book), includes an activity suggestion, and instructions for a writing project (mostly poems). You can use all the lessons, or just a couple.