Vocabulary, the bigger the better! Ok, that might be an exaggeration, but then again…maybe not! I learned how important having a great vocabulary was by watching and listening to my father. He was not a native English speaker so there were times when he simply did not have the English word he was looking for. [...]

My daughter is a reluctant writer. That is not anything new. I really don’t know if she will willingly write a lot. She has a great spoken vocabulary, and she can read anything I put in front of her. But she doesn’t spell well. She knows that she doesn’t spell well. She can recognize that [...]

Were you homeschooling before homeschooling was cool? I’ve been homeschooling for a little over five years now, and even in just that short amount of time I have noticed that homeschooling has become much more acceptable. Unlike many of my homeschooling friends, I found the right curriculum for us right off the bat. We didn’t [...]

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, [...]

Do you have frustration with your child about learning math? I do at times. I find that she gives up very easily and she doesn’t show her work. In addition, she does not do math drill work like workbook pages. And woe be unto me if I ever asked her to do a timed exercise! [...]