Can you believe that July is almost half done already? I can’t! It seems like this summer just flew by. By the time that you’re reading this, we will have already started our new school year. How about you? When does your year start? Kidwash : Peanuts are Evil I rarely link to my own [...]
Our homeschooling support group hosts a “curriculum show-and-tell” session annually. This is an opportunity for members to examine all kinds of materials that other homeschoolers use without the pressure of sales. (Here is an example of a curriculum show and tell.) It never fails. The number one question that is asked from table to table: [...]
It’s here! One of the favorite times of year of many homeschooling families. No, not spring break – curriculum fair time! It’s also the time of year that leaves many homeschooling families scratching their heads and wondering, “How do we choose curriculum?“ With so many choices out there, it can be overwhelming. The biggest thing [...]
No, the title is not an oxymoron: you really can have fun with grammar. Admittedly, I love grammar, but I realize that most people don’t share my strange affinity for prepositional phrases, pronouns, and punctuation. That’s no reason for torturing your kids with dry grammar worksheets and tedious sessions of circling, underlining, and crossing out. [...]
As a homeschooling family we have a pretty wide range of ways we homeschool. I wouldn’t call us “traditional schoolers” yet I wouldn’t call us complete “unschoolers” either. Depending on the child we incorporate a variety of learning methods in our home. We drill words, we go on nature walks, we read together, watch educational [...]
This summer I knew we needed to catch up on some of the skills we missed out on at the end of our school year because of the unexpected events that we experienced. One of the areas I knew we really had been lacking in was spelling. It just hadn’t been a very big concern [...]