I am always intrigued by studies that point to the one subject where many American children, homeschooled or not, struggle: mathematics. I have read that, especially in the case of homeschoolers, the struggle is often not with math concepts, but computation—in other words, speed. Enter my children. Funny, given my love for math, I assumed […]
Saying “yes” to something new
The youngest, a 2nd grader, is embracing what is, in her mind, her biggest challenge yet—cursive handwriting (name covered below to protect the innocent). I remember my own experience with cursive writing in elementary school; in fact, Handwriting was my first “B.” Fast-forwarding many, many years, I can remember that the oldest began writing […]
1st Semester Progress Report (pt. 2)
Picking up where I left off, I think the gap filler between where I am with the youngest and where I want to be is a planner. Lisa(?) Hobar of Mystery of History once described the inverse relationship between time spent with your child and the amount of planning needed. If you imagine an X […]
Responding to what you read
This past summer I was so blessed to attend Heart of the Matter’s online homeschool conference. I don’t get a dime for saying this, but at a time when we are all looking even harder for the best for less, their conferences are a great deal. They are very inexpensive (generally under $25), and, given […]
A Day in our Lives
I’ve been trying to pen a “Weekly Homeschool Wrap-up” for a couple of weeks now, but my mind hasn’t been able to compartmentalize enough to make the various sections sound like something other than garble. I think some part of the problem is that everyone except me had some variation of a cold on […]