Transitioning to Homeschooling? Here’s How Our Alternative School Can Help
For families considering the shift from traditional schooling to homeschooling, the journey can be both exciting and challenging. Austin...
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Austin Rising School
Sep 271 min read
Bringing Homeschoolers Together
Homeschooling isn’t just a choice to "go rogue" from traditional schools—it’s a decision to deepen our understanding of education, community
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Austin Rising School
Sep 191 min read
Austin Rising School – Experiencing the World of Falconry
At Austin Rising School, our commitment is to act as the telescope that brings the world into view for our students. Through immersive,...
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Austin Rising School
Aug 301 min read
Back to School Buzz: A Splash of Joy with Austin Rising School!
It's that exhilarating time again—back to school! And here at Austin Rising School, the excitement is palpable.
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Austin Rising School
Feb 91 min read
A Mind for Science at ARS
Our youth ARS scientists presented a Science Fair for this end-of-session project. Parents and peers had the opportunity to peruse the...
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Austin Rising School
Feb 91 min read
ARS Celebrates Fellow Polish Texans
We had an amazing time at the Bob Bullock Museum for Homeschool Day! Our school, Austin Rising School, was thrilled to join almost 500...
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Austin Rising School
Jan 24, 20201 min read
In Language Arts This Week
We began with a video about the three types of essays (informative, persuasive, narrative) and tips on creating an outline. To practice,...
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Austin Rising School
Jan 24, 20202 min read
In Main Lesson This Week
What if there were no trash or recycling services to help us deal with our waste? This week everyone brainstormed what their home and...
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Austin Rising School
Apr 11, 20191 min read
It's Journalism time!
SPARROWS CLASS: We had a blast this week! Our creative juices were flowing and we laughed and laughed! The lesson plan was to write a...
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Austin Rising School
Feb 7, 20192 min read
What's Happening In Math This Week
Math 1 This week we explored combinations to add to certain values. For example, 7 can be thought of as 0+7, 1+6, 2+5, 3+4 4+3, 5+2,...
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Austin Rising School
Oct 18, 20182 min read
What's Happening This Week in Math
Math 1 We played more Domino War this week, but added a recording sheet that prompted us to think about equations and equivalencies,...
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Austin Rising School
Oct 18, 20181 min read
What's Happening This Week in Main Lesson
To start off our unit on world religions, I asked the kids what they know about 6 of the world's major religions: Judaism, Hinduism,...
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Austin Rising School
Oct 18, 20181 min read
2018-19 School year is off to a great start!
We started off the year talking about physics, tolerance, acceptance, nutrition, and endangered species. Phew! It's been a great...
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Austin Rising School
Apr 23, 20181 min read
What's Happening In Main Lesson This Week
Our focus this week was our moon and the planets. We watched some video's about the moon's phases. Then we did an activity with...
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Austin Rising School
Apr 23, 20182 min read
What's Happening In Math Class This Week
Oak class This week, we solved the story problems the kids wrote last week. They were two-digit adding and subtracting problems. Our work...
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Austin Rising School
Apr 13, 20182 min read
What's Happening In Math Class This Week
Oak class Tons of fun in class this week as we wrote, drew, and cut-and-pasted story problems for addition and subtraction of two-digit...
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Austin Rising School
Apr 12, 20181 min read
What's Happening in Main Lesson this week
We started our week by drawing a comic strip to teach others what we learned about black holes. They are hilarious! Then we moved into...
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Austin Rising School
Apr 8, 20181 min read
What's happening this week in Kids of Kindness
This week was all about respect. We learned about what is respect. What it looks like and what it sounds like. We played a fun game of...
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Austin Rising School
Apr 8, 20182 min read
What's happening in Math class this week
Oak Class We started a multi-day investigation of packages and parcels. Each present in the story problems is represented by a square,...
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Austin Rising School
Apr 8, 20182 min read
What's happening this week in Main Lesson
We finally understand on a chemical level how we could possibly be made of star stuff! Our favorite force in the universe, gravity,...
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