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Thoroughly Fun Homeschooling

There seems to be a lot of discussion lately in the homeschooling community about the idea that you can either have fun or be thorough. I’d like to propose that home school can be fun and thorough. My definition of...

How to Use Dictation in Your Homeschool

Dictation is a technique that is mentioned often in homeschooling circles. It is a foundational activity in the Classical method and the Charlotte Mason method, among others, and has the potential to significantly boost...

Creating School Scrapbooks

Getting our family photo albums caught up to date is my annual summer project. I have far more scrapbooks than I ever intended, but some of the ones I’m most grateful for are the school albums I’ve created for each of my...

Entertainment History 1890-1919

One of the things I enjoy about teaching modern history is the chance to introduce my kids to the entertainment of the time. We can read Shakespeare’s plays and Greek tragedies, but the dawn of the 20th century is the first...

Sports Trivia Devotional: A Review

Filled with facts, sports history as well as Bible lessons and verses, Sports Trivia Devotional is special book is written specifically for a sports-minded boy or girl. This book is educational and a lot of fun. A wide variety of...

Homeschooling When Your Heart Isn’t in It: It’s OK Not to Homeschool

We were supposed to start Ptolemy on Monday, not sit in a funeral home trying to decide if we wanted the white casket or the brown casket to bury our twenty-one month old son. I remember because for a few confused and panicked...

Coaching the Writing Process

I think it’s fair to say we all want our kids to be good writers. Some children are natural writers and some are not. They will do anything to get out of writing even one sentence. Have you ever given much thought as to why we...

What About the Little Ones? Preparing for a New Preschool Year

I’m coming off of a weekend attending our state homeschool convention. I spent a good deal of time planning, researching and seeking out the tools I’ll need to teach my older children. But here comes the question I get most...

Is Spelling Becoming Obsolete?

Ever since hearing from a friend whose kids are in public school that their teacher doesn’t pay much attention to misspelled words, I’ve been feeling troubled. She said that since computers fix kids’ spelling for them,...

Beware of Competence!

Have you ever wondered if you are teaching your children everything they need to know? If you have been homeschooling your children for less than a hundred years, you have probably asked yourself that question more than once! ...