When they make the big decision to start homeschooling, every parent wonders where to start.  If you think of the process of narrowing down which type of homeschooling you prefer and imagine a tree with many branches, it may help you to visualize what needs to be done.  At the base of the tree, a single [...]

You would think that the end of a school year, or perhaps the very beginning of a school year would be the time I get the most questions about home schooling. I have found that right about this time of year, I get more questions about how to begin to home school. Maybe those questions [...]

Do you remember when and where you learned how to form contractions?  For those of us who learned English as our first language, we learned to speak in contractions, and then learned to write and spell them.  Teaching contractions sometimes falls through the cracks because we all speak using contractions and a lot of confusion [...]

What kind of homeschooler are you? Why do you home school? There are probably as many answers to those two questions as there are homeschoolers. The vision many people have of home schoolers is of devoutly religious families with many children gathered around the kitchen table, learning from text books, in a very traditional schooling [...]

This week a home-school group I belong to was having their annual kick-off for school.  Children were encouraged this year to do a report on amphibians or insects/bugs of South America.  I was very surprised what my girls picked considering they have a phobia with insects and such.  Over the last couple of years they have overcome the [...]