What are you doing with social studies this semester? My daughter is in sixth grade, but for some reason we got things all turned around. We were supposed to cover the Revolutionary War in fourth grade. Of course, we got side-tracked and we did other things. Besides, I don’t think my 4th grader was ready [...]

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 [...]

There are so many words in the English language. If you are an adult, who learned to speak English as your first language, you may not realize how difficult our language is. If you are an adult who learned English as a second language, you know what I am talking about. One of the worst [...]

If your child is anything like mine, you are constantly looking for different ways to review. The big catch is, at least for my child, she hates to review. In fact, if it vaguely looks like a review, she balks. So, I have had to become very creative with how we go over information again, [...]

Games, my child loves to play games. She would have never learned her multiplication tables if it had not been for games. Online music games have provided her with entertainment and learning opportunities. She recognizes many musical notes, rests, and other musical symbols from playing these games. While it is not actually piano lessons, it [...]