Ep 5: Teach Them Together

The thing that breaks multi-age homeschools is running parallel grade levels: four separate little schools under one roof, taught by one person.

This is part of 13 Things We’d Tell a Brand-New Homeschool Mom — thirteen short episodes marking thirteen years of the Ultimate Homeschool Podcast Network.

In this episode

• Which subjects combine beautifully, and which cannot
• One lesson, several levels of response
• Why the skill subjects are shorter than you think
• Putting the older children to work without it being exploitation
• Accepting the noise

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This episode is sponsored by Eden’s Table — Biblical herbalism for the elementary grades. One plant a week, with science, history, art, reading and handwriting running through it as a single unit study. Open and go, no prep the night before. The first nine weeks are $39.

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