I have already mentioned my 12 year old daughter has expressed she might want to go to public school.  Well now…the school we are looking at is a cyber school.  We already use a homeschool online curriculum so how different could this school be?  With that along with her online writing class that she already [...]

Math has never been an easy thing for us. My daughter is smart, multi-tasking, and extremely resistant to studying math. Our math program is online, and is therefore very flexible with regard to how fast we accomplish a school years worth of work. We also do school all year long so that means our speed [...]

One of the science benchmarks for fifth grade science is the study of habitats and ecosystems. This is one of those benchmarks that is easily accommodated by a little bit of hands on field trip. Part of the way that we learn about habitats, ecosystems and species interdependence is to visit a swamp that has [...]

“When do they make the 1st graders cry?” This is the question my daughter asked the first day of first grade. I didn’t know what she meant. I asked for clarification. She replied, “You know, Mama, it’s like a whole week when the 1st graders cry every day, I saw them do it last year.” [...]

Boy do I remember the days my oldest daughter hated to read  and write because she didn’t understand spellings of words.  Now being in seventh grade I can not get her to put down a book.  She has a friend who has the Kindle and let her borrow it so she can read the new [...]