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. [...]

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, [...]

Ok, so what are your children reading? Are they reading on their own, or are you reading to them? My sixth grader is reading Fablehaven right now. I do not have her reading anything in particular for “school” so to speak. I figure it is more important to keep her reading anything that is close [...]

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 [...]

It is a commonly held belief that learning phonics helps children become better readers, spellers, and writers. Phonics are usually taught early on, in kindergarten and first grade, as the student is beginning to learn to translate spoken English to written English. Since my child is an accomplished reader, I thought we were past worrying [...]