A homeschooling friend of mine recently announced that her son would be beginning to learn Latin next year. I was puzzled; after all he would only be in second grade at that time. She reminded me that it would help him when he got to med school. Again, huh? He will be a second grader! [...]

Lately, I’ve been looking at how we will continue to homeschool once my daughter reaches high school. I know how we will homeschool middle school, because our homeschool curriculum goes through eighth grade. I think that once my daughter begins high school we will be doing most courses “a la carte” which means each course, [...]

Have you ever wished you were one of those people who always use amazing vocabulary in every day conversations? I have found that the more I hang out with people who use great vocabularies, the better I get at using words that have been floating around in my head. I find that my child is [...]

My child is 11 (and a half, she would remind me!) years old. I am fortunate that she is a great reader. She is not afraid to pick up books that are older than her age/maturity and read them with a fair amount of understanding. I would love to take credit for this, but I [...]

What are you doing with social studies this semester? My daughter is in sixth grade, but for some reason we got things all turned around. We were supposed to cover the Revolutionary War in fourth grade. Of course, we got side-tracked and we did other things. Besides, I don’t think my 4th grader was ready [...]