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 [...]

Are you getting ready for the new school year? It is right around the corner. While we do home school all year long, we still have a certain excitement that happens around the beginning of the traditional school year. We love going to buy school supplies, new pencils, pristine new notebooks, at great prices. Another [...]

I know we are not the only homeschoolers out there that do not test regularly. Fortunately for us, we live in a state that does not require us to submit standardized test scores. This is not to say that we don’t regularly have chapter tests, and quizzes and that sort of thing. We do use [...]

Time4Learning Middle School Math Curriculum…A Review This week, I am going to do something a little different. I’m going to tell you about Time4Learning Middle School Math Curriculum. Probably the most important thing for me is that the curriculum plans my lessons for me. And next on my list of likes is that records are [...]

Homeschooling my child is helping me overcome a long time phobia. Strange as it may sound, I am overcoming my anxiety and dread of math. I think my fear started in fourth grade. I had a teacher who was definitely “old school”. He assigned even number problems for homework, because odd number problems has the [...]