Sonoma County!
Fall 2026 interested families can attend
our Info Nights on May 28th and June 15th
Core Academics for Homeschoolers
Math and Humanities, Covered
Full curriculum instruction for Math and Humanities (History + English), completed through cohort hours and provided home activities. Everything practically based. Students practice the real-life applications of their lessons.
Social, Cohort Learning
Small cohorts (around 4-8 students) provide a supportive learning environment where students can continue building social confidence and develop peer skills.
3 Cohort Days Each Week
Three hours each cohort day, and homeschool work provided for non-cohort days.
Example Schedule (Mon, Tues, Friday)
9:00 -10:30 Math
10:30-11:00 Critical Skills "Break" Learn More
11:00-12:00 Humanities
MATH CURRICULUM
The HomeBase Math curriculum combines dynamic practical actives 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.
+ Cohort 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
+ Cohort Activity: Students learn how to find area after learning stacked multiplication. Cohort works together to measure the HomeBase rooms and calculate the area.
+ Home Activity: Calculate the square footage of all the rectangular rooms in your house, bring and present to cohort.
Curriculum: Humanities
The HomeBase Humanities curriculum teaches grade-level History and English together. Grades 4 & 5 are combined.
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)
Cohort 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 "Break"
During our break, students eat, play, and socialize through activities that
teach critical thinking and home skills.
Critical thinking
Students self-direct play through critical thinking games
home Skills
Students rotate setting the table, preparing group snacks, and cleaning up.
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 years have included facilitating
homeschooling for families, curriculum design, and single-subject
tutoring. 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 preparing students for the world, and showing them
the empowering qualities of learning. She specializes in practical and
independence-based learning, and combines Waldorf, Montessori, and
Traditional pedogoies.
Samantha's Experience:
+ Homeschooling Sonoma County students ranging from Kinder-11th,
including custom curriculums.
+ Ran and taught 5th Grade learning cohorts (Math and ELA) in
Manhattan from 2021-2023
+ Extensive 1-on1 tutoring experience, specializing in re-instating the joy
of learning in students with negative school experiences.