Why do you homeschool? I know why I homeschool. I am a completely secular homeschooler. It isn’t that I don’t have faith, it is that I don’t homeschool for religious reasons. I never wanted to homeschool, I thought my child would need to go to school to learn to be a “normal” kid. After all, [...]

Do you teach geography in your home school? We have not done a lot of geography other than that which is included in our core curriculum. At the beginning of the school year this year, a group of moms from my local home school group got together and made a unit study for each state [...]

I have overloaded my cart, I think… Of course, I want my daughter to have an excellent home school education. I want her to have the basics or core curriculum of language arts, math, science, and social studies. I want her to have literature studies, and spelling. I want her to have supplemental science studies, [...]

We are done! Ok, that sounds so final. Let me qualify that. We are officially done with 5th grade. My daughter has been doing 6th grade science for a while now, because, of course, it is her very favorite subject, and she wouldn’t do anything else if I didn’t insist on a little math, and [...]

 I’ve been asked whether it is easy or difficult to home school. My usual answer is something like, “well, that depends on what you consider hard!” In reality, the answer is dependent on where you live, how committed you are to home schooling, and probably how organized you are.    I’m fortunate. Ok, there are [...]