As the new school year began, our family had a lot of new curriculum and resources we were trying out. For instance, we had a new curriculum for our history and Bible studies this year. As I was planning it…
Math. I know many of you just groaned. I can’t say I blame you because I’m not a math person, either. My kids are pretty good at math and don’t dread it. Thankfully! I have found, though, that the right…
Do you have a middle schooler in your homeschool? I do. Plus, I’ve already got one through the middle school years. I have found that grades 6-8 are kind of prepping kids for high school. They learn to work more…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Reading is an essential skill kids need to learn. It is hard, though, when you have a child, in which reading doesn’t come easy. I don’t have struggling readers, but you can bet I worked with many as a former…