Middle school is such a tough place to be.   The kids aren’t really into the elementary stuff anymore, but definitely not ready for high school either, not to mention the insanity of puberty ramping up.  Middle school curriculum is changing too, and the easy and fun art projects of elementary school are replaced with….Well, what [...]

  Do you know what one of the most amazing things to me is? If I sit my child down in front of a computer, she is totally un-intimidated. What I mean is that she is willing to jump right in, push buttons, see results. She is not afraid that she might delete something, or go [...]

I’m convinced that learning contractions is just plain difficult for a lot of kids.  My oldest child is in 6th grade and still makes errors with contractions in her writing.  Thinking back a few decades, I don’t think contractions were a cakewalk for me, either! What works best?  Should contractions be gradually incorporated into reading [...]

  Do you supplement your child’s basic education with subjects that are considered enhancements? As my child reaches upper elementary school it becomes more and more obvious that she needs “electives” to add to her basic reading, writing, and arithmetic. These electives are things that enrich and enhance her education. Foreign language is one thing [...]

“Oh Mom!  I don’t want to do another vocabularly lesson!  When am I EVER going to need this stuff in real life?!” I’d be willing to bet just about all homeschooling moms have heard some variation on this theme.  Kids don’t like vocabularly lessons, with all those funky words they’ve never heard of, and having [...]