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 [...]

Games, my child loves to play games. She would have never learned her multiplication tables if it had not been for games. Online music games have provided her with entertainment and learning opportunities. She recognizes many musical notes, rests, and other musical symbols from playing these games. While it is not actually piano lessons, it [...]

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 [...]

Spelling is getting boring, at least according to my kids.  So I’ve been trying to find a way to jazz things up a little.  The routine, you know, gets old.   So I started looking at alternatives and things to supplement our regular curriculum with, to generate some new interest in the kids. You can build [...]

I remember back in the day I had to require daily readings into my homeschooling.  Now it is asking my girls to put the book down and eat dinner with us!  It is so nice that the reading comprehension has clicked with my youngest, but I do worry she still reads and skims through things [...]