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, [...]

Homeschooling my child is helping me overcome a long time phobia. Strange as it may sound, I am overcoming my anxiety and dread of math. I think my fear started in fourth grade. I had a teacher who was definitely “old school”. He assigned even number problems for homework, because odd number problems has the [...]

Homeschool science. Ok, my daughter would do her whole home school science curriculum to the exclusion of everything else. Over the last month or so my mother has been in the hospital and so my daughter’s school has been not quite as regimented as I would like it to be. While I spent time with [...]

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 have changed it up again for writing practice for my girls.  I have them writing a paragraph or more on and subject that is in the daily news.  The tsunami was quite the scare for them.  I think it will be interesting what they write about.  Hopefully this will help them from suffering boredom [...]