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 [...]

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, [...]

I know we are not the only homeschoolers out there that do not test regularly. Fortunately for us, we live in a state that does not require us to submit standardized test scores. This is not to say that we don’t regularly have chapter tests, and quizzes and that sort of thing. We do use [...]

I have come to the conclusion as of late that history, social studies, and political science are among the most important things I can teach my daughter. Numerous historians, politicians and philosophers have had their take on the saying that those who do not know history are doomed to repeat the mistakes of history. Without [...]

One of the biggest problems with the traditional school year is the long summer break. During that break, many students do not continue to make academic progress. The three places that students fail to continue their forward progress are math, reading, and spelling. Some students lose as much as two months worth of knowledge in [...]