Many families begin homeschooling their children after Christmas break. For whatever reason, January is almost as popular for starting to homeschool as September. This is probably because parents have decided that whatever the trials and tribulations of their child’s existence in public school, they just can’t take the drama of public schooling anymore. So they [...]

My daughter has no problems at all with reading. She reads above her level, has great reading comprehension, and truly seems to enjoy reading. And for all of that I am extremely grateful! One of her best friends, who is also homeschooled, is on the opposite end of that spectrum. He struggles with dyslexia, and [...]

I have been pushing my daughter rather hard in language Arts and in social studies this week.  The reason we are pushing hard in language arts is not because she is behind, or because she is not doing well.  I just want her to finish sixth grade langauge arts in the  next couple of months [...]

Well, the new year is under way. I am looking at the things we did last semester. I’m pretty sure we didn’t do enough. How can that be? We work almost every day at school. Ok, so sometimes our school days are not long enough. But when I look back at the stuff we have [...]

  Happy New Year! Do you have resolutions? Every year I make this list of things I want to accomplish. I don’t think about it again until about July, and then the week of Christmas I get weirded-out because I haven’t accomplished the things on my New Year’s resolutions. One thing I really need to [...]