In the ’80s, I was an elementary school student. In kindergarten we learned our letters and numbers, very basic sight words, and spent most of our half-day of school learning through play. Being a nun was the only requirement needed to teach in Catholic school. That nun told my parents I wasn’t good a student and …
My baby is not a baby anymore. At 4 years old, he has been asking to start school, so this year we are homeschooling preschool. This has been a bit of a culture shock for me. We started our journey with homeschooling kindergarten and first grade, but we were part of a cyber school so …
Setting homeschool goals can keep you from burning out. These goals can guide your decision-making so that you feel empowered to say “no” to activities and other things that don’t help you reach those homeschool goals. Here is what I’m focusing on in our homeschool for 2019. At the start of January, as I was …
November marked the end of 12-months of homeschooling for us even though we are in our fifth year of schooling at home. I’ve shared a lot of our experiences during the past year from our experience leaving public school to my struggle going to a homeschool convention and trying to find where I now fit …
After a horrible public school experience for our oldest son, we decided to start homeschooling. I had actually made the decision in February of that year, but we waited and dealt with the aggravation and issues at the school until the end of the school year. In all of the educational decisions we have made, …
