At the beginning of each school year do you search for a new curriculum to use for homeschooling? I know that some people have this scramble every year, and I am overjoyed that I do not have that problem. When I decided to home school, I had already found the curriculum that I would use. [...]

There are so many types of homeschooling, and so much homeschool curricula to explore….There are public school online programs, classical education, Waldorf, Montessori, Charlotte Mason, unit studies, lapbooking, and….I’m sure there are more!  There are as many approaches to homeschooling as there are homeschoolers.   That’s a wonderful thing, but how do you choose what’s right [...]

Well as you can guess from the title of this post I live in NM.  It is absolutely gorgeous here.  It took me some time to get use to it, but I love it now.  We have four seasons that are very colorful.  When I moved here in 2003 that is was when I decided [...]

Do you remember when and where you learned how to form contractions?  For those of us who learned English as our first language, we learned to speak in contractions, and then learned to write and spell them.  Teaching contractions sometimes falls through the cracks because we all speak using contractions and a lot of confusion [...]

I have made it through these last years of homeschooling by listening and learning from online parent communities.  There is always someone else experiencing your situation or somewhat close enough to relate to you.  One online parent community I have found very helpful is the Time4Learning one.  There are so many subjects to pick and [...]