Choosing the best ADHD Homeschool Math curriculum for your child

I’ve often said that there is no perfect “ADHD curriculum,” because kids with ADHD are just as varied as kids without. Any curriculum you choose will need some adjustments, and just about anything you use can be adjusted.  With that in mind, these ADHD homeschool math options are quirky and creative, colorful and engaging, or hands-on with lots of variety. Plus, these particular options for ADHD homeschool math are items we have used personally. Though these homeschool math curriculum choices won’t solve all your ADHD challenges, choosing from this list may help you find something that, with a few adjustments, could be the perfect curriculum for your child.

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The ADHD Homeschool Math Curriculum List

How to find your Homeschool Values

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When we think of homeschool planning, most of us imagine stacks of curriculum in front of us, a planner of some style, colored pens or highlighters, and that intimidating blank page. Planning a year’s worth of learning for multiple kids in different grades is daunting, I don’t care how many years you’ve been doing it. But planning your homeschool doesn’t start with curriculum or even with the lesson plan. It doesn’t start by calculating days and weeks or blocking out vacations. The planning starts by identifying your homeschool values, those core principles or ideas that are most important to you.

Motivating your Writer with Digital Tools for Writing

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Motivating my kids to write, even my child who loves writing, can be tricky. Although I have a background in writing and do quite a bit of writing professionally, encouraging my kids through the writing process just isn’t easy! Writing is a process. It’s hard work, even if you are creative. And it can be really discouraging, disillusioning, and confusing. Starting with a great idea is the easy part; seeing that idea through to a final draft of a story is not. If you have little background in writing or are overwhelmed with the process yourself, motivating your child-writer can be even more difficult. What I have appreciated most about Bardsy Homeschool are all of the digital tools for writing that it provides to both encourage and motivate your writer. 

Homeschool Math Curriculum for independent learning

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One of the greatest challenges with homeschooling multiple children or homeschooling children with learning struggles is never having enough of you to go around. Everyone needs you, and some of your children simply can’t accomplish the work without you sitting right beside them checking each answer. This is especially true with a subject like math. Finding a homeschool math curriculum that allows your child to be independent, to learn without you, to be instructed and corrected and to receive some basic help with their math lesson, can make a huge difference in your homeschool day. Teaching Textbooks is a homeschool math program that equips your child to learn math independently, even if your child has a learning struggle.

Tips for NOT Overthinking Your Homeschool Curriculum Choices

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We’ve been homeschooling for about 9 years now, and every year I tend to overthink my homeschool curriculum choices. This year has been worse than usual. For one, my oldest is starting high school (hear me hyperventilating?) and, with all the COVID limitations, I’ve had far more time to think and rethink and rethink again.

Don’t get me wrong, researching the right curriculum takes time; that’s perfectly normal. There is a normal part of gathering facts, reading reviews, and previewing samples that comes with wise shopping. But when I begin to rethink and second guess the items in my cart, not because of facts, but because of my own fears and insecurities, I’m overthinking.

So if you just can’t bring yourself to click that “purchase” button, or you’ve replanned your homeschool year for the hundredth time, how do you stop overthinking your homeschool curriculum choices and move on? Here are a few reminders that help me.

Middle School Homeschool Curriculum Favorites

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This homeschool year, I have two of my kids in middle school—6th grade and 8th grade. To say I was nervous about these transitions would be an understatement. Though I definitely miss the lower elementary years of crafts and messy projects, adventurous learning and cozy read-alouds, these years of growth and independence and deep conversations have been a blast as well. I actually love homeschooling my middle schoolers. And while settling on homeschool curriculum for middle school has been a little bit of trial and error, I’m pretty happy with how our year has wrapped up.

Hands-on Homeschool Language Arts curriculum: review & giveaway

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We’ve recently finished the entire Nessy phonics program, and I’ve been on the search for a grammar and writing program that fits the parameters of my son’s personality and dyslexia struggles. His learning style is humor, (and no, you won’t see that on any learning style list, but trust me—it’s a thing). That was one of the key successes with Nessy for him; the humorous videos helped him to finally remember the phonograms we’d been struggling to learn for a while. For grammar and writing, he needed something visual, humorous, and creative—a hands-on homeschool language arts curriculum that was fun.

Finding Guest Hollow’s Language Arts program was like having someone read my mind. Her Beowulf’s Grammar activities and lesson plans are full of picture books, drawing lessons, finger puppets, and projects tailor-made for my son.

(Disclaimer: I received elements of this program for free in exchange for an honest review. I was not compensated for a positive review. All opinions are my own.)