I have been pushing my daughter rather hard in language Arts and in social studies this week.  The reason we are pushing hard in language arts is not because she is behind, or because she is not doing well.  I just want her to finish sixth grade langauge arts in the  next couple of months [...]

I have overloaded my cart, I think… Of course, I want my daughter to have an excellent home school education. I want her to have the basics or core curriculum of language arts, math, science, and social studies. I want her to have literature studies, and spelling. I want her to have supplemental science studies, [...]

We are done! Ok, that sounds so final. Let me qualify that. We are officially done with 5th grade. My daughter has been doing 6th grade science for a while now, because, of course, it is her very favorite subject, and she wouldn’t do anything else if I didn’t insist on a little math, and [...]

So, how is your school year going so far? Have you started the hard work yet? We are just beginning to start the part of school that my daughter considers the “hard work”. Of course, if it is related to language arts at all she things it is hard. And some of that is harder [...]

Words. It is hard to remember how much there is to actually learn about the English language. Every day that we do language arts in school I remember something that I have forgotten. Who knew English was so complicated? For those of us who grew up speaking the language, over the course of many years, [...]