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 [...]
Something about summer can make even the most scheduled mama want to throw caution to the wind. While there is a lot of merit to loosening the reins during the summer months, you don’t want to lose the team altogether. That’s where a good summer schedule comes in.
Make a list of summer activities and anything [...]
We recently ended our school year, and our much anticipated summer break has begun. At first, the 10 weeks of no school seem like a long, long time. However, I have learned that if I don’t make a summer schedule, then the weeks quickly slip by, and I failed to accomplish all that [...]
I am a list maker by nature. I make lists of my lists. So naturally, when I started homeschooling seven years ago, I had a list for everything. I had a list for goals, for assignments, for ideas I’d like to use sometime in the future. I had a daily list and a weekly [...]
I think it’s that time of year for a lot of homeschoolers — the end of the school year is in sight (even if, for some of us, it’s still two months or more away) and we’re starting to get antsy to start planning for next school year.
Around the country, curriculum fairs and homeschool conventions [...]