Have you ever had one of those days when you couldn’t get your child to do vocabulary or spelling words?  At our house we have had to come up with some pretty interesting ways to get those vocabulary words learned.  Some children enjoy the structure of writing the words, and looking up the definitions.  I […]

Spelling is hard enough for kids to learn without throwing them a curve ball full of contractions.  But unfortunately, that’s exactly what homeschooling parents have to do.  So how can we teach about contractions and make the experience a little less painful for the kids?
Look around for some contraction games to keep the kids interested.  […]

Learning math can be very monotonous for some children.  We all know that the best way to learn math is to repeat, repeat, repeat.  If your child is anything like mine, asking her to repeat is like telling her she is stupid.  She firmly believes that if she has to do it more than once […]

Hi there - I’m a new writer here, so I thought I’d introduce myself!  I’m a mom of 5 kids and we’ve been homeschooling for 4 years now.  We love it and would never go back to public school.   I guess we’d be considered “accidental homeschoolers” because it wasn’t something we planned on doing, but […]

There are so many approaches to teaching a Language Arts curriculum, but compound words lend themselves especially well to visualization.  Some kids “get” the concept of compound words quickly, but others struggle with it.  Having a versatile lesson plan that encourages visualization can help make the abstract idea of combining two words into one a […]