I know summer is a long way off, but the beginning of the new year tends to make me reassess where we are in our curriculum, and to do some planning for the rest of the year.  Thinking about summer plans just kind of goes along with that.  I’m sure there will be a few [...]

There are a few different approaches to summer when you’re a homeschooler.  You can take the summer off from schoolwork, or power on through as usual.   There are plenty of shades of gray in between too, like maybe keeping the schoolwork going but at a reduced level. One popular option is online summer courses, so [...]

During the summer, the last thing your kids probably want to hear about is intensive work. They want to have fun, you want to have fun, the whole family wants to have fun! It would be easy to not do any kind of school work, but you know that when kids take a total break [...]

In response to John’s newsletter title, “Do our Children Learn Differently,” I had a couple of comments to make.  Although I agree that the children of today learn differently than of children past, I don’t completely agree with it. I honestly believe that some children would have been much better off in the 70′s and 80′s [...]