Has your child ever needed just a little bit of extra practice doing math or handwriting? Mine sure has. Many home schooling parents ask for just a page or two more practice on something. When your child is in lower elementary school it is easy to find work books at low cost for practice in [...]

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 [...]

You know the saying that goes, “Do as I say, not as I do?”   I don’t think it applies to teaching your kids how to write!   It sure seems to me that kids model the behavior they see in their parents, and homeschoolers even more so, since they spend so much time with their families.  [...]

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 have already mentioned my 12 year old daughter has expressed she might want to go to public school.  Well now…the school we are looking at is a cyber school.  We already use a homeschool online curriculum so how different could this school be?  With that along with her online writing class that she already [...]