I’m not sure how many of you have noticed my absence but I’ve not written since February. It seems like longer to me but it hasn’t been. We recently went through some really hard times and to be honest it was all I could do to keep my head above water. Our spring homeschooling schedule [...]
I have seen this question come up many times before, but I can’t recall a time that we ever talked about it here on The Homeschool Classroom. The question comes from Cat from [A]Typical Family:
My husband and I are prayerfully considering homeschooling our older two daughters (4th and 7th grade, one ESL/ELL). My question [...]
My oldest daughter is finishing fifth grade this year, and even though we’ve homeschooled all the way through so far, I still have a hard time seeing myself as an experienced homeschooler. I second-guess myself all the time and always have. But there is one thing I’ve gotten better about in the past six years [...]
Each year, thousands of school kids spend their summers at week-long camps designed to occupy their times and maybe even fine tune some academic skills. Even Percy Jackson gets to spend his summers learning how to be the perfect Half Blood. Wouldn’t it be great if there was a Home Camp, to whip out the [...]
I’ve had some struggles over the past 11 years. Homeschooling is not always the easy path to tread. I don’t know how many times in those moments that I’ve had a conversation with a well meaning friend, and spilled my guts only to walk away not feeling built up, but completely ripped apart from the [...]
I was mad, not just irritated, but really mad. Anger had gotten the best of me and all sense of smarts went out the window.
The morning went fantastic. Everyone cooperated and worked efficiently on their schoolwork. I took my youngest out for a break to play some baseball in the front yard. We had a [...]