Home Education Button – Carrie Lee Ferguson

Home Education

Years ago, I began envisioning a life of learning in the world alongside my family. I wanted to unschool myself, to feel the interconnectedness of everything. From 2019-2021, we homeschooled our middle-school-age daughter, while traveling often. We still love to travel and are passionate about learning and growing together.

Follow our journey on the blog, and look for middle school homeschool inspiration. I love connecting literature and history, and offer a free Middle School History and Language Arts guide as part of the bundle of Freebies!

Home Education

June 4, 2021

Best Gun Violence Awareness Book For Teens

Today is National Gun Violence Awareness Day. It also kicks off Wear Orange weekend, a movement to honor the millions of lives taken or forever changed by gun violence. In recognition of this[...]

Home Education, Homemaking

May 26, 2021

She Graduates, Again

She graduates, again. This time there is no ceremony, no little-kid wooden chairs to sit in, no speeches to be heard. It is just these simple moments: sitting at the table with her, c[...]

Home Education

March 2, 2021

Two Historical Fiction Books For Teaching US History

Our homeschool writing class recently finished two important historical novels: How I Became a Ghost by Tim Tingle and 40 Acres and Maybe a Mule by Harriette Gillem Robinet. Both are middle gr[...]

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Home Education

January 14, 2021

Fostering Historical Empathy Through the Seeds Of America Trilogy

“Indeed, how well we do—whether in the classroom or the boardroom—depends more than ever on how well we forge and navigate relationships. In this way, empathy is the new literacy: essent[...]

Family Travel, Home Education

August 11, 2020

REnewing Education with Indigenous Wisdom

“To find new ways of transmitting knowledge, we must first find a new knowledge. To find a better medium we must find a better message.” Parker palmer, To know as we are Known Pare[...]

Home Education

July 29, 2020

To homeschool or not to homeschool?

As schools start to announce their re-opening plans for Fall 2020, parents have so much to consider! How much time have you spent trying to make this decision—send the kids back to school or[...]

Home Education

July 21, 2020

Teaching a multi-perspective United States History: A Homeschoolers resource

I’ve been preparing for our 8th grade homeschool, a large portion of which will be US History and modern day revolutions. I’m looking forward to diving deep into our country’s history.&n[...]

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Home Education

May 29, 2020

A Seventh Grade World/Homeschool

My daughter’s educational journey (outside of the home) began at a PreSchool/Kindergarten inspired by Waldorf. She spent her elementary school years at a small Montessori school. [...]

Family Travel, Home Education

May 22, 2020

what should families do this summer? Let literature take you on a trip!

The school year is coming to an end. Travel plans are on hold. Summer camps are still in question. What should families do this summer? While international travel may not be an optio[...]

Family Travel, Home Education

May 15, 2020

raising global citizens

Alexandra Tyson is a traveler, an elementary school teacher and the founder of the website TGC: Travel for the Global Citizen. Her husband, Chris, is the in the Navy and they have three g[...]

Home Education

March 20, 2020

more for the suddenly at-home-schoolers

You’re working from home. You’re managing meals and your kids’ education. You are socially isolated and figuring out how to live in this uncertain time. Of course you are overwhelmed!&nb[...]

Home Education

March 18, 2020

to the suddenly at-home-schoolers

Are you homebound with your kids and wondering what in the world to do? My number one advice is this: Don’t try to turn your home into school. Seasoned homeschoolers know this, and[...]

Home Education, Homemaking

February 4, 2020

What to do when your a tired mom

Last week was a bit bumpy in our household and homeschool. Between sickness and lack of sleep, tempers were lost. I should mention that I was the first to lose it. I get triggered whe[...]

Home Education

January 14, 2020

Unschooling myself

I remember this moment clearly: I’m in the third grade. I sit in my desk in the second to last row when the teacher announces, “We are ready to begin learning our times tables.” I think�[...]

Home Education

December 24, 2019

‘Tis the season for slowing

Outside, the natural world is slowing, but our culture is just getting going. Is it the season for slowing down or for getting the cookies made, the holiday cards sent, the errands run—maybe[...]

Home Education, Homemaking

July 31, 2019

She Graduates

She graduates . . . and you want to post a picture, say something about how time flies but you know that this will never encompass what you feel and maybe this is why you find it difficult to p[...]

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