Why do you homeschool? I know why I homeschool. I am a completely secular homeschooler. It isn’t that I don’t have faith, it is that I don’t homeschool for religious reasons. I never wanted to homeschool, I thought my child would need to go to school to learn to be a “normal” kid. After all, [...]

It is a commonly held belief that learning phonics helps children become better readers, spellers, and writers. Phonics are usually taught early on, in kindergarten and first grade, as the student is beginning to learn to translate spoken English to written English. Since my child is an accomplished reader, I thought we were past worrying [...]

It has been a long battle to get my daughter to spell better, and it has been a frustrating one, considering the fact that she is able to read anything she wants to. I worried a lot when we first started home schooling because I pulled her out in the middle of her first grade [...]

I’m continuing along with my recent theme of trying to keep my kids interested in school just a little longer, until Spring Break.  It’s getting harder by the week!  The weather is warming up, the tulips are peeking out of the ground, the snow is finally gone.  It’s tough to keep kids working on academics [...]

The younger your kids are, the more natural education at home seems.   Preschoolers and kindergarteners are used to spending most of their time at home with their family, in familiar surroundings, so it only seems natural that when they begin school, homeschooling is a logical transition.   It won’t feel different or strange, and pretty soon [...]