Many parents are finding out that there child is not where he or she should be at the end of the school year. Final evaluations are out or will be soon, and some parents are in for some rather unpleasant news. It may even be unexpected news as some school systems are teaching “to the [...]

My child is a reader! Ok, so that is not really a new thing. I guess I should explain. I didn’t actively teach my child to read. Oh sure, I read to her, she “read” to her stuffed animals, and her pets from a very young age. We jokingly say that the first thing we [...]

I got a flyer the other day in the mail and almost tossed it as junk until I noticed it had to do with homeschooling.  I decided to spend a few seconds reading it, unlike my other junk mail that I’d already trashed.  I’m glad I did because I learned a new term, STEM. Apparently [...]

My son was a 6-year-old (almost 7) when I began teaching him to read, and it seemed as though he just wasn’t getting it. He had learned some phonics in kindergarten and recognized some sight words, but putting together everything he had learned just wasn’t happening. I tried everything from McGuffey readers to other phonics books and [...]

I have tried several different homeschool programs, I even tried public school. This school year specifically, I was using Sonlight. I have recently discovered something about myself and that is that I don’t adapt things very well unless I am very sure and very familiar with it. So, for example, when doing the Sonlight Language [...]