Here is a rundown of our curriculum plan for my daughter Jerah who will be in the 8th grade next year. English Jerah took a Writer's Workshop class through The Potter's School this year, and next year she'll move on to an English 1 course. She'll also be doing independent reading in addition to her […]
Our 10th Grade Homeschool Curriculum
Our first year of homeschooling high school has been a bit of a challenge. We're making it through, but due to some struggles my 9th grader has had with motivation, some of the credits we'd planned on granting for his freshman year just didn't happen. He'll end up with about 5.5 credits for his freshman […]
Curriculum Review: Eat Your Way Around the World and Geography Through Art
Geography is one of my kids' favorite subjects, so I was excited when I was given the opportunity to review a couple of unique geography books: Eat Your Way Around the World and Geography Through Art, both of which are published by Geography Matters, a great homeschool geography curriculum company. Eat Your Way Around the […]
Free Download of Funnix Beginning Reading Program
Through February 16, 2012, you can download the Funnix Beginning Reading Program for free. The reading program is 220 complete lessons taking children from beginning non-readers to reading at a beginning third grade level. To get the free download, you'll just need to fill out the form here. After filling out the form, you will […]
The Absurdity and Irregularity of English Pronunciation
English is a very complicated language. Many English words, due to their roots in a variety of languages such as French, Greek, German, and Latin, are known to be exceptionally hard to spell and pronounce correctly. Sure, as homeschoolers we like to entertain the idea that there are actually English spelling and pronunciation "rules" that […]
How to Teach Descriptive Writing with Show-me Sentences
Descriptive writing doesn't come naturally to most writers, especially to children. That ability usually has to be learned. As you know, children tend to tell, not show what is happening, so their writing ends up sounding more like a newspaper article rather than a story. As parents and teachers, we often struggle with how to […]
How to Catch Common Misspellings in Writing
This morning my 9-year-old was working on editing some sentences where she was looking for errors and correcting them. I noticed she tended to overlook some of the more common errors, such as misspellings of it's/its, your/you're, two/to/too, there/their/they're, and whose/who's. She knows how to use each of the words the proper way, but catching […]
Weekly Homeschool Conference & Evaluation Forms
The life skill of self evaluation is learned when we do our weekly homeschool conference and evaluation form. In the course of homeschooling, it's helpful to look back over the previous week to evaluate what's working and what is not. One thing I'm going to be implementing with my children is a weekly conference and […]
For Book Lovers Everywhere
Free Audiobook Download: The Chronicles of Narnia
You can download free audiobook files of the complete Chronicles of Narnia by C.S. Lewis. These recordings were read by Chrissi Hart for her Readings from Under the Grapevine podcast and are made available by Ancient Faith Radio. If you don't want to download the audiobook files, you can also listen to the books in […]
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