Games, my child loves to play games. She would have never learned her multiplication tables if it had not been for games. Online music games have provided her with entertainment and learning opportunities. She recognizes many musical notes, rests, and other musical symbols from playing these games. While it is not actually piano lessons, it [...]

Do you teach math vocabulary? I never really thought about it until recently. We didn’t learn specific vocabulary, we just learned the words as they came up in math exercises. As my daughter’s math gets more complicated there are more words to know that just add, subtract, multiply, and divide. In fifth grade she is [...]

Reading, reading, reading! Did you know that it is as important for you to read as it is for your child to read? Well, it is, for a couple of reasons. First of all, if you are modeling the behavior you want your child to copy, then reading is a great thing to model. If [...]

I just realized that here we are, entering the home stretch until the end of this school year, and I’ve really been slacking in teaching my sixth grader some art.   Sixth grade homeschooling is hard enough, with so many required subjects, objectives to meet, and goals to attain.  Art has fallen by the wayside.  What [...]

When we first started home schooling it was the hardest thing I believe I have ever done. I was terrified. What if I were to skip something vital and mess up my child’s education? I never wanted to home school to begin with, and when the…”opportunity” (read unfortunate circumstance) to home school presented itself, I [...]