Susan's Homeschool Blog

Here are my favorite posts from 2014:

I love writing about my walk with God, and my greatest desire is for people to deepen their walk with the Lord. These are my three favorite spiritual posts from 2014:

• Fight Depression with Truth
• Job Unit Study
• Prayer Parables

My family worked really hard to come up with original jokes for two different humor posts that include short videos. I played with some special effects I’ve never used before, and both humor videos included more editing work than any other videos I produced in 2014 (and I produced a lot!) If you’re in the mood to laugh at something corny, go watch these shows:

• Biology Comedy Show
• Ridiculous Weather Report

I really enjoy doing live webinars. I was asked to be a panelist in quite a few webinars in 2014, so these were some of my favorite posts:

• Unit Studies for Homeschool
• Nature Study
• Creating a Homeschool Schedule
• Timelines for Homeschool
• The Pros and Cons of Homeschooling
• Homeschooling Multiple Ages
• How to Make Homeschool Science Come Alive

I was also interviewed on the Homeschool Leadercast, where I answered a lot of questions about homeschooling. Even though it’s not technically on my blog, I enjoyed this interview:

• Why You are the Best Teacher for Your Children

Here are my top ten most popular posts from 2014:

Most Popular Bible Posts

My hands-on Bible posts are the top viewed posts from my entire blog. Apparently people want to teach their kids the Word of God, which really encourages my heart!

• 31 Days of Drawing through the Bible
• 31 Days of Bible Crafts
• Bible Reading Chart (Free PDF)

Most Popular Science Posts

I enjoyed writing two sets of science posts in 2014: one having to do with Earth science and outer space, and the other having to do with chemistry experiments. All of the posts are accompanied by demonstration videos, and therefore both of these sets were in my top 10 most viewed posts in 2014:

• Earth and Space Series
• Elementary Chemistry Series

Most Popular Unit Study Posts:

My husband had been telling me that I needed to write a series of blog posts about unit studies. The Unit Studies 101 series was born out of that challenge, and they were the hardest posts for me to write because I had to assume that the readers knew nothing about unit studies. To go back to the basics paid off because the series was hugely popular! The other two posts were the most popular actual unit studies during the past year:

• Unit Studies 101 Series
• Roller Coaster Unit Study
• Rainforest Unit Study

Most Popular Missionary Kid Posts

I have to say that I was surprised that these posts did so well because I thought my audience for writing about missionary kids was small. Was I ever wrong! When posting the “Loss and Grief for MK’s,” I was shocked to see over 1,000 unique visitors reading that post during the first two days alone. There was a spike in my stats that was incomprehensible to me, and my MK posts ever since have been hugely popular:

• Loss and Grief for MK’s
• Missionary Kids Have to Be Perfect