My daughter is reading several books at one time. She has two started on the e-reader, one hardcover book, and is listening to a different audio book. Yes, I consider listening to the audio book reading. How can I do that? Well, part of the reason I want my daughter to read is to increase [...]

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 [...]

Is it important to do math in a particular order? Yes, at least for us! We started sixth grade math a week or so ago. I decided that this year we would absolutely do it in the order presented. Last year, I let my daughter skip ahead to what she wanted to work on. I [...]

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, [...]

Ok, so what are your children reading? Are they reading on their own, or are you reading to them? My sixth grader is reading Fablehaven right now. I do not have her reading anything in particular for “school” so to speak. I figure it is more important to keep her reading anything that is close [...]