Achieving Your Education Without Attending a Brick and Mortar Building - Centre for Learning @ HOME - Alberta Home Education

Achieving Your Education Without Attending a Brick and Mortar Building

Most Albertan families never question whether or not their student will go to school. They have a kid who’s between 6 and 18, so they go to class at the local, brick and mortar school; that’s just how it is. They never consider that there may be another alternative. But with nearly 10,000 homeschooled students …

But Don’t Home Educated Kids Lack “Socialization”? - Alberta Home Education - Home Education Alberta

But Don’t Home Educated Kids Lack “Socialization”?

If there is one thing families who home educate have heard a thousand times, it’s the (usually) well-intentioned protests of a stranger that a home educated student will lack socialization and be unable to relate or talk to other people. Of course, that’s nonsense. Homeschooled students take part in a wide variety of extracurricular activities …

Three Easy At-Home Science Experiments for 6-8 Year Olds - Centre for Learning at Home - Home Based Education Alberta

Three Easy At-Home Science Experiments for 6-8 Year Olds

Science is cool! It’s the study of how our world works, and for elementary students there are limitless possibilities for demonstrating just how unexpectedly the world can function. By 6-8, most kids have been around long enough to have created general assumptions about the world. You drop your cookie into your cup of milk, and …