Did you know that one of the hottest home school trends is utilizing online learning tools? It’s true. I know that we used an online curriculum for the majority of our home schooling. I guess it is safe to say that my daughter is truly a product of the internet age. She if fearless when [...]

It always happens. As the old year gives way to the new year, and we start up home schooling again after the break for Christmas and New Year., I feel like I have to, no…I need to reevaluate how we do things. I need to see if the goals we set were achieved. I need [...]

I am not sure how I feel for my state’s  standardized testing. Well ok I do know how I feel!  Not good at all.  When I see the news and it tells me that the children from our state aren’t graduating and dropping out it makes me wonder.  My concern is I want my children to have [...]

With my daughter in fourth grade and a older I think her hyperactivity is calming down.  I think me helping her understand she thinks outside the box and knowing that that is perfectly normal has helped her through some tough times.  I notice she isn’t as forgetful lately too. But that easily could be cuz she [...]

My daughter has avoided word games like the plague in the past. She really didn’t like doing plain word lists, or vocabulary lists. Last year I even asked a fellow home schooling mom to “teach” my daughter spelling because it was just a serious point of friction with us. This year, I tried a different [...]