Should you give grades in your homeschool? I can honestly say this was one of the first things I thought about when we began our homeschool journey. After all, I had taught in public and private schools for almost a…
After several years of homeschooling (and as a teacher), I’ve found that at some point, many kids will have some gap in their math skills. For example, my daughter struggles with negative numbers, while my son always forgets some skill…
**UPDATED from November 2018 with more ideas for you.** As the months creep closer to winter, kids start anticipating the first snow of the year. The world is full of all-new possibilities for fun when the first snow arrives. There…
Early on in homeschooling, I began looking for different homeschool groups in the area. I wasn’t really looking for a co-op where someone else would be teaching my children. After all, I love teaching and was looking forward to teaching…
Though we are year-round homeschoolers, we have a relaxed summer schedule and start in seriously in the fall. We have many standard traditions for our first day of homeschool. My kids look forward to these traditions and indulge me with…
We don’t watch the evening news around here because I don’t want my kids exposed to it right now. But, they aren’t sheltered from it by any means. We discuss what is going on in the world, but they don’t…
We haven’t always been homeschoolers. My kids went to public school briefly; my daughter went until second grade, and my son went to kindergarten. I hated every minute of it. For me, the start of the school year was NOT…
When I was a classroom teacher, many of the teachers used writing prompts with kids throughout the year. We did this because our school district always had a spring writing prompt. Kids were assigned a topic and had to write…
Have you ever found a homeschool curriculum that you fell in love with and wished you’d found it sooner? I have. For me, it was unit studies by Home School in the Woods. They have such fun history curriculum options…
I remember snippets from high school classes. Some I remember fondly, while others…well, you know how it is. One memory I carry with me even today is from my freshman English class. We studied Greek and Latin morphemes. I never…