We are still working on it, of course. What, you ask? Spelling and vocabulary! My daughter has an incredible spoken vocabulary. She reads above grade level and for that I am very grateful. I don’t worry too much about whether or not she has mastered grade level vocabulary or even whether she might be above [...]

I can see that if you’re brand new to homeschooling, this could be a  pretty intimidating thing, like starting anything new can be scary.  But for verteran homeschooling moms, homeschooling a preschooler is  a piece of cake!  I have several older kids who are also homeschooling, so I look at preschool as a creative way [...]

I know summer is a long way off, but the beginning of the new year tends to make me reassess where we are in our curriculum, and to do some planning for the rest of the year.  Thinking about summer plans just kind of goes along with that.  I’m sure there will be a few [...]

The younger your kids are, the more natural education at home seems.   Preschoolers and kindergarteners are used to spending most of their time at home with their family, in familiar surroundings, so it only seems natural that when they begin school, homeschooling is a logical transition.   It won’t feel different or strange, and pretty soon [...]

When I was a kid, every Friday was the dreaded spelling test.  You know, when we were supposed to be learning the spelling words all week, but somehow ended up all freaked out on Friday because – EEK – it’s the spelling test!   The teacher would tell us to number our papers from 1-10, and then she’d [...]