There are so many decisions to make when you’re new to homeschooling that it can really be overwhelming!  Do I use one of the public school online programs, or go it alone and choose my own curriculum?  Do I use a curriculum that comes with all the subjects together, or should I piece something together [...]

The home school groups I belong to have students with a range of abilities, ages, learning styles, and  learning disabilities. I got the chance to talk to a mother who has two children with sensory processing and autism spectrum disorders. She talked about the need to have a very scheduled day, yet she couldn’t have [...]

This week we had some fun by combining a bit of language study with art.  It’s called “language arts“, right?  So that’s what we did!  Together, we made a list of all the compound words we could think of.  Of course, this required me to explain what a compound word is, and we talked about [...]

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 [...]

Middle school is such a tough place to be.   The kids aren’t really into the elementary stuff anymore, but definitely not ready for high school either, not to mention the insanity of puberty ramping up.  Middle school curriculum is changing too, and the easy and fun art projects of elementary school are replaced with….Well, what [...]