I can see that if you’re brand new to homeschooling, this could be a  pretty intimidating thing, like starting anything new can be scary.  But for verteran homeschooling moms, homeschooling a preschooler is  a piece of cake!  I have several older kids who are also homeschooling, so I look at preschool as a creative way [...]

I think we have decided that my soon to be teenager will take some public school courses next year.  She has never gone to public school and I don’t want a big culture shock for her.  Our local public school offers a cyber academy where she would go 1 day to get her assignments and [...]

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 younger your kids are, the more natural education at home seems.   Preschoolers and kindergarteners are used to spending most of their time at home with their family, in familiar surroundings, so it only seems natural that when they begin school, homeschooling is a logical transition.   It won’t feel different or strange, and pretty soon [...]

Argh! Learning languages is so difficult sometimes. English is hard enough if it is your first language. It is much harder if English is going to be a second language. Add on top of that the fact that English has a different set of grammar rules and spelling rules than most other languages. That means [...]