Sometimes I get so caught up in providing my daughter with a better education than she would get in the public school alternative to our homeschool, that I forget that she needs down time, too. I get caught up in the idea of what science curriculum we will use when she finishes her current one. [...]

One of the biggest problems with the traditional school year is the long summer break. During that break, many students do not continue to make academic progress. The three places that students fail to continue their forward progress are math, reading, and spelling. Some students lose as much as two months worth of knowledge in [...]

Do any of you with kids in the lower grades test your kids? I wasn’t going to when I started, but I am testing Tim all week anyway. I wanted to have something besides his work, to have in one place, that gave a sample of all our state requires him to know. He took the [...]

For Natalie, learning how to read a calendar has proved more challenging then we expected. Obviously learning to read would have to come first in order for her to identify the words which describe the days and months so we are skipping this section to work on more language arts. Another challenge she’s working on [...]

I am posting this blog because recently I’ve been reading or hearing in the news the statistics about children with adult diseases. I am not surprised to hear the latest statistics on diabetes and high blood pressure in kids.  It is sad but so much can be done to prevent such problems from occurring to [...]