Custom Curriculums for Homeschoolers

HomeBase can design custom curriculums and provide instruction for Math, Science, Art and Humanities (History + English), completed through at home tutoring hours and provided independent activities. Everything practically based. Students practice the real-life applications of their lessons.

Tutoring for All Students

We offer private subject tutoring for students that are homeschooled and non-homeschooled. All students deserve to feel empowered and joyful in learning. Tutoring is a safe space to explore areas where the student needs support. We learn how the student works best and teach them how to self-sustain learning.

Homeschool Pod Teachers

We can provide pod-instruction for group that need facilitators and educators. Grades K-12 and mixed grades included.

Find the JOY of Learning

HomeBase's practical, hands-on lessons are focused on creating a joyful learning environment. Our founder, Samantha, has spent 8 years teaching with a specialty in re-connecting students with their curiosity and empowerment through learning.

TESTIMONIALS

email: homebaseschooling@gmail.com

MATH HOMESCHOOLING CURRICULUMS

The HomeBase Math curriculum combines dynamic practical activities with the grade level standards. We use a mastery systems so parents can follow along with their student's progress in general goals.

Membership included office hours and additional materials for any students that need additional support on certain masteries.

Example lessonS:

Gold Nugget Hunt:

Mastering UNITS, MULTIPLICATION & ADDING DECIMALS.

This 4th grade activity helps students understand the value of precious metals today, and connects to our 4th grade Gold Rush history lessons.

+ Activity: Mini "gold nuggets" will be hidden. Students will find them and weigh them, recording the weight to exact decimals. Then will then research how much gold currently costs per ounce and multiply it by their "gold" weights to see how much it would be worth today!

+ Home Activity: Students can repeat this with their family, this time finding the value if it was silver.

House Square Footage Project:

Mastering AREA, MULTIPLICATION and UNIT MEASUREMENT

+ Activity: Students learn how to find area after learning stacked multiplication. Cohort works together to measure the HomeBase rooms and calculate the area.

+ Activity: Calculate the square footage of all the rectangular rooms in your house, bring and present to cohort.

Founder - Samantha Woo

Samantha is a native to Sebastopol and has been facilitating homeschooling for families in Sonoma County or Manhattan since 2017.

Her homeschooling services over the past 9 years have included:

~ Private facilitation of Math and Humanities for homeschool families (K-11th)

~ Custom curriculum design to achieve grade level proficiency in a joyful way.

~ Teacher of Math cohorts in Manhattan to get local students up to speed post-Covid.

~ Teacher of 5th grade (Math and ELA) at Higher Learning Summer School

~ Many private tutor students with IEP's and learning disabilities specializing in reconnecting the joy of learning in students with negative school experiences.

~ Diverse curriculums including Waldorf, Montessori and College-Prep

Her services became so popular that she founded HomeBase,

after seeing the need for a core academics hub that combined community

and peer skills with cohort learning.

Samantha believes in connecting students with the practical value of their education by showing them how their work can empower them in the real world. She specializes in practical and independence-based learning.

TESTIMONIALS

Humanities HOMESCHOOLING CURRICULUM

The HomeBase Humanities curriculum teaches grade-level History and English together.

Grade Levels History focuses:

4th & 5th grade - Local history (CA State History like Gold Rush, CA Missions, Indigenous Groups, Local Government, Early US History etc.)

6th grade - Early US and World History (Colonization, Early Institutions, Formation of the States)

Work will focus on improving students' writing and synthesis skills, group discussions, and social/history lessons.

Home work will include reading assignments of historical novels, and projects like dioramas, reports, and investigative journalism!

Critical Skills

HomeBase tutoring aims to provide the executive skills needed to succeed independently, like finding the origin of mistakes, self-starting tasks, and being curious about the world.

Critical thinking

Samantha has a wide array of brain games and critical thinking tools, to support the development of students.

home Skills

We emphasize giving students the systems needed to keep track of work, see their education working in the real world, and prepare for independence.