June 24, 2018 Attitude of Gratitude Have you ever felt depressed because something you planned for didn’t come to pass? Something you wanted to do with someone didn’t pan out? Have you ever thought you did everything you could but were still shoved down? Sometimes an unexpected illness happens even [...]
June 3, 2018 DuoLingo I like tools that make education fun. This little application is fun, comprehensive, and easy to use. Louis found it, as he’s the language nut in our household. (Seriously, seven languages plus ASL?) I thought I was good with fluency in two and working knowledge in [...]
May 24, 2018 Elephant Ears One of my favorite garden bulbs is what we call “Elephant Ears.” These are from three bulbs that we dug up in some weeds when we first moved in. They were tiny, neglected, and crowded. With good fertilizer and plenty of water, (we didn’t have [...]
April 14, 2018 Any Book is Curriculum In our homeschool curriculum, we have base books that everyone has to go through. These are standards like Arithmetic and Language Arts. I add vocabulary workbooks to teach etymology. Once etymology is learned, the student usually finds spelling and vocabulary far easier so [...]
April 12, 2018 Homeschooling Challenge: Their Own Pace One of the challenges I’ve discovered in our home school journey comes from my philosophy to never keep one student back for another. I allow them to advance at their own pace – if this means we spend eight weeks constantly studying [...]