Today we have a guest post from our Mentor of the Month, Carmen. We hope you enjoy hearing about her homeschool and family.

Hi, my name is Carmen and I have a ten year old son, Kyle. We live in a small, rural town in South Africa. I have been home educating him for four years. We started out trying to do school at home, but it was not working out for him. I was introduced to the Fun-Schooling journals and slowly started to incorporate them into our day. Last year we flipped to Fun-Schooling as our main curriculum,  with the focus being animals since that is what my son is interested in. 

Mom School

I’ve been working through the Brain Games journals which I’ve loved. It is really nice to be able to just take some time for myself and be creative. 

Journal my child is working on

My son will be working through the All About Space journal this year year. It’s a really fun journal for children wanting to be creative and learn about all things space related! He is really looking forward to starting it.

Journal hack

When a child is using the Fun-Schooling journals,  it is important to remember to let the journals work for you. I’ve printed out pictures for my son to stick into his journal,  instead of having to draw. Another hack for children,  is to allow them to use speech to text for writing assignments.