I used to think how great it was that as homeschoolers, my kids could avoid those pesky state-wide standardized tests the public school kids had to endure.   (Of course, it depends on the state, whether or not homeschoolers must take these tests, but in many states they either aren’t required at all, or are optional.)  [...]

At the beginning of each school year do you search for a new curriculum to use for homeschooling? I know that some people have this scramble every year, and I am overjoyed that I do not have that problem. When I decided to home school, I had already found the curriculum that I would use. [...]

There are so many types of homeschooling, and so much homeschool curricula to explore….There are public school online programs, classical education, Waldorf, Montessori, Charlotte Mason, unit studies, lapbooking, and….I’m sure there are more!  There are as many approaches to homeschooling as there are homeschoolers.   That’s a wonderful thing, but how do you choose what’s right [...]

Do you remember when and where you learned how to form contractions?  For those of us who learned English as our first language, we learned to speak in contractions, and then learned to write and spell them.  Teaching contractions sometimes falls through the cracks because we all speak using contractions and a lot of confusion [...]

As a home-school mom I feel I have to make things more creative to keep my girls from the doing the same ol’ same ol’!  Writing and spelling WERE a bore to them.  After they do their spelling ritual I print the printable handwriting worksheets of their word list then they can practice writing them. Having them also write [...]