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 [...]

I’m continuing along with my recent theme of trying to keep my kids interested in school just a little longer, until Spring Break.  It’s getting harder by the week!  The weather is warming up, the tulips are peeking out of the ground, the snow is finally gone.  It’s tough to keep kids working on academics [...]

I have changed it up again for writing practice for my girls.  I have them writing a paragraph or more on and subject that is in the daily news.  The tsunami was quite the scare for them.  I think it will be interesting what they write about.  Hopefully this will help them from suffering boredom [...]

I would have to say I think English language is hard to learn.  There are so many exceptions and simply some of the rules don’t apply when suppose to.  With that said my daughter was doing her writing assignment this week when I looked over her shoulder to see some mistakes.  I just let her [...]

“Mama, when do they make the first graders cry, because I need to stay home that week.” That was the question my child asked me the first day of first grade. At first, I couldn’t understand what she was asking.  “You know, Mama, the whole week where everyone has to be really quiet, and can’t [...]