Many families begin homeschooling their children after Christmas break. For whatever reason, January is almost as popular for starting to homeschool as September. This is probably because parents have decided that whatever the trials and tribulations of their child’s existence in public school, they just can’t take the drama of public schooling anymore. So they [...]

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, [...]

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 [...]

  Do you supplement your child’s basic education with subjects that are considered enhancements? As my child reaches upper elementary school it becomes more and more obvious that she needs “electives” to add to her basic reading, writing, and arithmetic. These electives are things that enrich and enhance her education. Foreign language is one thing [...]

Last night we had our friends over and they so happened to homeschool their 4 children as well.  I started school like a month ago where they just started this past week.  My dear friend said sooo…. we are back to school! “But how do I reinforce what they have learned?” She always looks at [...]