I know summer is a long way off, but the beginning of the new year tends to make me reassess where we are in our curriculum, and to do some planning for the rest of the year.  Thinking about summer plans just kind of goes along with that.  I’m sure there will be a few [...]

The home school groups I belong to have students with a range of abilities, ages, learning styles, and  learning disabilities. I got the chance to talk to a mother who has two children with sensory processing and autism spectrum disorders. She talked about the need to have a very scheduled day, yet she couldn’t have [...]

I got a flyer the other day in the mail and almost tossed it as junk until I noticed it had to do with homeschooling.  I decided to spend a few seconds reading it, unlike my other junk mail that I’d already trashed.  I’m glad I did because I learned a new term, STEM. Apparently [...]

The fifth grade school year is a very important year where language arts and vocabulary are concerned. Standards based bench marks indicate that students should be able to use grade appropriate vocabulary. From a parental and teacher point of view that statement doesn’t really help us decided what is the appropriate vocabulary. Aside from giving [...]

There are so many types of homeschooling, and so much homeschool curricula to explore….There are public school online programs, classical education, Waldorf, Montessori, Charlotte Mason, unit studies, lapbooking, and….I’m sure there are more!  There are as many approaches to homeschooling as there are homeschoolers.   That’s a wonderful thing, but how do you choose what’s right [...]