For families considering the shift from traditional schooling to homeschooling, the journey can be both exciting and challenging. Austin...

Homeschooling isn’t just a choice to "go rogue" from traditional schools—it’s a decision to deepen our understanding of education, community

At Austin Rising School, our commitment is to act as the telescope that brings the world into view for our students. Through immersive,...

It's that exhilarating time again—back to school! And here at Austin Rising School, the excitement is palpable.

Our youth ARS scientists presented a Science Fair for this end-of-session project. Parents and peers had the opportunity to peruse the...

We had an amazing time at the Bob Bullock Museum for Homeschool Day! Our school, Austin Rising School, was thrilled to join almost 500...

We began with a video about the three types of essays (informative, persuasive, narrative) and tips on creating an outline. To practice,...

What if there were no trash or recycling services to help us deal with our waste? This week everyone brainstormed what their home and...

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...

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,...

Math 1 We played more Domino War this week, but added a recording sheet that prompted us to think about equations and equivalencies,...

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,...

We started off the year talking about physics, tolerance, acceptance, nutrition, and endangered species. Phew! It's been a great...

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...

Oak class This week, we solved the story problems the kids wrote last week. They were two-digit adding and subtracting problems. Our work...

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...

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...

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...

Oak Class We started a multi-day investigation of packages and parcels. Each present in the story problems is represented by a square,...

We finally understand on a chemical level how we could possibly be made of star stuff! Our favorite force in the universe, gravity,...