How to End Your Homeschool Year Like a Hippie
Every year since 2002, around the time winter ends and spring’s first blooms starts to color my world, I start browsing Rainbow Resource and HomeschoolReviews.com. Then I pour over a…
View ArticleHOMESCHOOL: 6th Grade in Review
First of all let me start by saying to spell check, “Quit telling me I have spelled HOMESCHOOL wrong. You with your red zigzag underline mark. It’s a real word.…
View Article7th Grade Homeschool (Finally! And subject to revision.)
I’ve given myself the go ahead to put the few more Ecuador post on hold while I give attention to the here and now. It is a hard thing to…
View ArticleCURSIVE HANDWRITING: Books of the Bible (FREE printables)
There seems to be a debate about whether to teach cursive handwriting or not. Much of it might stem from the Common Core guidelines which include manuscript writing for kindergarten…
View ArticleHomeschooling: The Mid-Year Blahs
I have yet to talk to a homeschooling family that hasn’t suffered from the mid-year blahs. You know what I mean. When you walk into the ‘schoolroom’ and stare at…
View ArticleYou Gotta Have Faith
So the song goes, “You gotta have faith.” In all probability everyone has faith whether they realize it or not. You see, the word faith has taken on different meanings…
View ArticleStarting Over or New Beginnings?
The phrase ‘New beginnings’ sounds so much better than the words ‘Starting over’. New beginnings are hopeful and new and shiny. Next to a new beginning starting over sounds very…
View ArticleFootball, Makeup Brushes, and The Periodic Table (for middle school)
Explaining to young adolescents the value of learning about atoms, the periodic table, and elements is really quite a hard sell. None of these things have dreamy eyes, voices that…
View ArticleOakland Cemetery Atlanta, GA
About 4 really big city blocks north of Grant Park and Zoo Atlanta lies Oakland Cemetery. Part graveyard, part city park, part history book, part botanical garden, and part study…
View ArticleHomeschool: The Survivors, The Imposters, and The Bakers
It’s that time of year when the new curriculum has worn down, the shiny has rubbed off, and the dull drudgery is making everyone cranky. Everyone. Cranky. Very cranky. If…
View ArticleSocialization, Forced Association, and Age Segregation
I actually thought that the question of socialization was settled and over. I found out that I was wrong about that. I think with every new generation of homeschoolers the…
View ArticleOld Friends, Boring Textbooks, and Recent History
High school is too brief and fleeting to waste time on boring textbooks filled with uninspired dry accounts of dates to memorize and events told in such a way that…
View ArticleNo, you don’t have to be in the process of educating little kids to write a...
I browse through my share of homeschool blogs and Instagram accounts and it doesn’t escape my notice that the vast majority are in progress. I mean they are hands-on, in the trenches,…
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