Sometimes I get so caught up in providing my daughter with a better education than she would get in the public school alternative to our homeschool, that I forget that she needs down time, too. I get caught up in the idea of what science curriculum we will use when she finishes her current one. [...]

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, [...]

We are done! Ok, that sounds so final. Let me qualify that. We are officially done with 5th grade. My daughter has been doing 6th grade science for a while now, because, of course, it is her very favorite subject, and she wouldn’t do anything else if I didn’t insist on a little math, and [...]

Wow, it is time for summer to come to an and to get back to school. That is, unless you never stopped school. For some of us, we home school all year long, and the summer time is not even a time to slow down. Part of that is because it is so incredibly hot [...]