Ok, so another school year is coming to a close, especially for those people who have their children in public or private schools. Most of those public and/or private schools also had testing in the last month or so. Were you happy with the testing scores? Are you happy with where you child is in [...]

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 [...]

Do you teach math vocabulary? I never really thought about it until recently. We didn’t learn specific vocabulary, we just learned the words as they came up in math exercises. As my daughter’s math gets more complicated there are more words to know that just add, subtract, multiply, and divide. In fifth grade she is [...]

I just realized that here we are, entering the home stretch until the end of this school year, and I’ve really been slacking in teaching my sixth grader some art.   Sixth grade homeschooling is hard enough, with so many required subjects, objectives to meet, and goals to attain.  Art has fallen by the wayside.  What [...]