You are making a great decision to homeschool your children! No one cares more about your children than you do as a parent! Not only are you able to give your sons and daughters an excellent academic education, but you can impart your faith and...
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When our family, along with our homeschool co-op learned about the first English settlement at Jamestown, we decided to build the settlement out of pretzels and cereal.
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When we first studied HIS Story of the 20th Century in our homeschool co-op, I decided to hold a couch potato marathon. We watched a TV sitcom from each decade 1950s to 1990s. I wanted to show the the fashions, hairstyles, popular slang, and fads...
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You’ve heard about living books and they sound great! You want your children to read books that are practically alive and exciting to read. But, where can you find them? What books are living books anyway?
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What’s the big deal about archaeology? Well, it shapes so much of what we know about Ancient History and Ancient Peoples.
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I was so excited to check out 19 free gifts for signing up for SchoolhouseTeachers.com’s yearly membership (an amazing bargain!), especially Profiles of Valor: Character Studies from the War of Independence by Marilyn Boyer and Grace Tumas...
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Attention Moms! This is our window. If we let our children help when they are little lambs and praise their efforts, we are on track to having big helpers one day.
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When we studied art movements of the 20th Century, we enjoyed splatter painting to learn more about Abstract-Expressionistic Art.
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Kerry Beck shares with other parents how and what to teach when in come to polite behavior in Teaching Good Manners: Teaching Tips for Busy Moms. In a world where common courtesy is largely missing, this is a breath of fresh air.
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Narration happens when a child can retell or write about what he has heard or read. Here are 7 reasons narration is a great benefit to home education.
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To be honest, I just thought it would be an exciting way to learn creative writing. However, the benefits amazed me. Writing your own literature gives you such a depth of understanding literature. In addition, creative writing is a completely...
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My friends over at Captivating Compass have an exciting resource, an outstanding themed study of an amazing British author and the time he lived in. I love the Victorian era and I love Dickens works so I couldn’t wait to dig in. I was not...
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No two children are alike, but I’ve found a flexible plan to teach grammar that has worked for all my kids from Kindergarten to high school graduation!
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