3 Essential Ingredients For Real Learning In Your Homeschool

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We’ve discovered there are 3 essential ingredients for real learning in your homeschool. When these three ingredients are present, you can be sure that learning is happening.

Are you ready for real learning in your homeschool that’s easy, fun, and interest-led? Keep reading to discover how we’re making learning easy for kids and parents. Plus, get the scoop on an easy way to embrace interest-led learning in your homeschool that’s fun for everyone.

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Learning in Your Homeschool
3 Important Ingredients For Real Learning In Your Homeschool
Easy and Fun Interest-Led Learning
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Learning in Your Homeschool

Learning doesn’t have to be boring. Research shows the more kids are engaged and excited about learning, the more they retain. There are lots of ways to help kids learn to love learning in a homeschool setting.

Participating in hands-on activities is an easy way to encourage kids to get excited about what they’re learning and provide real-world context for your students. Engaging in science experiments, gameschooling, and even field trips are ways to make learning fun in your homeschool.

3 Important Ingredients For Real Learning In Your Homeschool

Over the years, we’ve discovered a few important ingredients for real learning in our homeschool. Checking for these three essential ingredients has helped us to ensure that real learning and fun are happening.

Easy

First, it needs to be easy. This doesn’t mean that we don’t ever cover topics that might be challenging at first. It just means that we try to make learning easy for Emily and easy for me.

If your child hates coloring, using coloring pages to teach letters isn’t going to be easy or fun and probably won’t result in a lot of learning. Similarly, if you despise setting up science experiments, conducting elaborate hands-on science experiments won’t be an easy way to encourage learning in your homeschool. The easiest way to encourage real learning in your homeschool is with activities that are easy for you to say yes to creating.

Interest-Led

Interest-led learning is one of the top ways to ensure real learning is happening in your homeschool. When kids are excited about the topics and the activities spark their curiosity, you’ve succeeded! Encouraging our kids to dig deeper into the topics they’re passionate about and look for answers to all their questions is an excellent way to encourage learning in your homeschool and foster a culture of lifelong learning for your family.

Curious about how you can embrace interest-led learning? Discover my Top 5 Tips for Interest-Led Learning to help you get started.

Fun

Finally, learning has to be fun. Few kids will want to complete an entire page of multiplication problems, but what if you print two and make it a race? That might get competitive kids excited about math.

What if learning multiplication facts is fun because it’s part of a game? There are games for every subject to help kids practice concepts from multiplication to spelling, science, and history. Plus, they’re a lot of fun!

When kids are having fun, they’re excited about learning, interested in what comes next, and willing to try things that might not seem easy at first.

Easy and Fun Interest-Led Learning

There are lots of ways to embrace easy and fun interest-led learning in your homeschool. I’ve put together Discovery Decks to make learning easy and fun for the whole family. These decks of printable cards include questions your kids have probably wondered about covering a wide variety of topics.

Whether your homeschoolers are learning about anatomy, landmarks, or survival skills, there’s a discovery deck just for them. Discovery decks for curious kids have all 3 important ingredients for real learning in your homeschool. Each card has a QR code kids can scan to watch educational videos answering all their questions.

Your homeschoolers will love watching YouTube videos to answer all the questions they’re curious about and you’ll love how easy it is to encourage real learning in your homeschool. It’s the perfect way to encourage kids to keep learning even when you’re busy. Here are a few of our favorite Discovery Decks:

Check out all 12 of these printable Discovery Decks for easy learning fun in your homeschool. Then, share your favorite ways to encourage real learning at home in the comments. I can’t wait to read all your great ideas!