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 [...]

Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays! I hope all of you are having a great holiday week! I know that not everyone celebrates in the same way, but this time of year is so full of holidays and warm family times. I hope that you are taking advantage of this time. I also know that school [...]

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. [...]

Do you teach geography in your home school? We have not done a lot of geography other than that which is included in our core curriculum. At the beginning of the school year this year, a group of moms from my local home school group got together and made a unit study for each state [...]

Is it important to do math in a particular order? Yes, at least for us! We started sixth grade math a week or so ago. I decided that this year we would absolutely do it in the order presented. Last year, I let my daughter skip ahead to what she wanted to work on. I [...]