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 [...]

Until very recently, I had no idea that gifted and autism could go together, but I’m learning real quickly that they can! Tim is very scattered in his abilities, but mostly ahead of his peers. I know a lot of this is due to the therapy I’ve given him myself over the last two years, [...]

We are actually taking this week off for spring break. I am using the off time to catch up on printing records and marking off the lessons the kids have completed. Once a month, I generate reports for all activities in each subject and print them out. Then I send them to work with my [...]

My first grader has very little interest in learning to read. I have successfully taught my older kids to read using various phonics materials, ie. Abeka, Saxon and Teach Your Child To Read In 100 Easy Lessons. I have tried several things with this one child over the past couple of years.  We have had [...]

Hi, I’m Lisa!  My husband, Tim and I have been married for 21 years and have five children.  We currently homeschool four of them.   They are 17g(next week), 13b, 10b, 6b and 2b years old.   We are closing in on the end of our 10th year of homeschooling. The years have flown by!   It has been hard, easy, [...]