Ok, so another school year is coming to a close, especially for those people who have their children in public or private schools. Most of those public and/or private schools also had testing in the last month or so. Were you happy with the testing scores? Are you happy with where you child is in [...]

Homeschool science. Ok, my daughter would do her whole home school science curriculum to the exclusion of everything else. Over the last month or so my mother has been in the hospital and so my daughter’s school has been not quite as regimented as I would like it to be. While I spent time with [...]

Do you teach math vocabulary? I never really thought about it until recently. We didn’t learn specific vocabulary, we just learned the words as they came up in math exercises. As my daughter’s math gets more complicated there are more words to know that just add, subtract, multiply, and divide. In fifth grade she is [...]

When we first started home schooling it was the hardest thing I believe I have ever done. I was terrified. What if I were to skip something vital and mess up my child’s education? I never wanted to home school to begin with, and when the…”opportunity” (read unfortunate circumstance) to home school presented itself, I [...]

We’re a pretty typical homeschooling family, doing our best to work through our chosen curriculum.  But I’ve discovered one thing it’s missing, and that’s handwriting.  It seems to be something  a lot of homeschoolers overlook.   The kids do plenty of writing as part of their Language Arts program, or History or whatever else, but not [...]