My strong recommendation for those homeschooling and using the web is to check out the following.

 Time4Learning’s web-based online curriculum.  They have great interactive lessons for middle school, elementary school, and even preschool.  It’s highly interactive and full of animation and multimedia. Whereas some curriculum are just lots of text with an occassional video or animation, Time4Learning is an […]

Do any of you have children who seem to struggle with the whole concept of Time4Learning?
My 10 year old loves what he’s learning, but he really dislikes to read.  We’ve tried Peedy, but while that was a big plus in the beginning, the novelty has worn off a bit.  The distortion of the voice is just too much […]

I’ve been thinking a lot over the past year about the concept of unschooling.
I know that unschooling means different things to different people.  To me it simply means self-directed education.
Even though I am quick to link myself to the unit study approach, I believe I’m an unschooler at heart.  I try my best to supply […]

We received the test results from our local University!!
The kids did about as well as I anticipated.  The test was very well put together in my opinion and it offered suggestions on ways to work with each child. 
My DDD 7th grade did exceptionally well in Reading Comprehension and pretty well in Math Reasoning but her […]

Today I found it amazing that there was such an amazing difference in my two kids.  Grasping math concepts has always come so easy to my oldest son.  Q would fly through math and never blink. He could tackle anything we threw at him.  While still in pre-school he was adding double digits and we […]