I’m convinced that learning contractions is just plain difficult for a lot of kids.  My oldest child is in 6th grade and still makes errors with contractions in her writing.  Thinking back a few decades, I don’t think contractions were a cakewalk for me, either! What works best?  Should contractions be gradually incorporated into reading [...]

It is that time of the year for us.  The Pizza Hut Book It Reading Program arrived in my mailbox.  My girls love this program they read books and get certificates for free personal pizzas each month for six months.  So this year I decided to change it up a little.  That is to let [...]

It didn’t take me long to get used to the idea of online homeschooling, because I began teaching my son at home via a home-based virtual public school that used online resources. They recommended that younger children do about fifteen to twenty percent of their work on the computer. I only used this home-based school [...]

What do you like most? ds13: It’s fun, not boring, usually funny. my “extra” student a boy, age 12: math ds10: doesn’t get boring dd9: It’s on the computer, it’s easy dd7: not so hard What do you like least? ds13: I don’t hate anything about it. 12yo boy: Peddy Parrot ds10: When it freezes during [...]

Wednesday I had my 3rd grader and 4th grader work from their Sonlight language arts and then do the other subjects on t4l. The newly revamped Sonlight LA program focuses on being a good writer. My special needs son prefers t4l learning LA because he doesn’t have to come up w/ the answer on his [...]