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, …
When I was a classroom teacher, we needed to complete 100 hours of professional development over the course of five years. So on average, about 20 hours a year. During that time, I took courses on differentiating instruction, teaching writing, guided reading, developmental spelling, and Everyday Math. I spent hours upon hours writing a literature-based …
Have you wondered what the best homeschool spelling curriculum is? What if I told you there was a way of having just one spelling curriculum that would ultimately work for all of your children at their developmental stage? Luckily, during my classroom teaching experience, I worked in two school districts that allowed the classroom teacher to …
Just like so many things in our children’s lives, learning spelling is developmental. Once you know what the developmental levels are, and what level your child is on, you no longer have to worry about if they are behind or right where they need to be. When we have our children, it begins. The constant …
