From the category archives:

question and answer

Every homeschooler I know can tell you what they are doing for math without so much as taking a breath before sharing.  However, when you start talking about health or physical education (gym), there are often a few more pauses before they say what they are doing.  It’s not as concrete of an area.
So, what’s [...]

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Here’s a fun and interesting question for this weekend:
Do you use a “boxed” curriculum (one that you either purchase with everything needed from a company or one that you purchase an instructors guide from and you buy their required materials) or do you just piece together a little of this and a little of that [...]

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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 [...]

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This week’s question comes from Angie at Many Little Blessings (hey wait — that girl sounds familiar).  Oh, okay, yeah, I have my very own question this week, and I can’t wait to hear what everyone has to say.
Do you limit the amount of time that your children can use the computer and/or video games?  [...]

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This week’s question comes from Kelly on our Facebook page:
What do you school on furniture wise? Individual desks or one large table? Something else? I am buying new classroom furniture and would love to hear what has worked for people.
I suspect we’ll have all kinds of different types of answers on this one, [...]

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This one is a tough question (or set of questions), but I thought it would be an interesting one for some of you to try to tackle.  I hope that this will be especially helpful for some of our readers that are just newly getting ready to start their homeschooling journey.
Brandi asked on Facebook this [...]

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