Author: mymentech

I do tend to use recipes that are quick and have fewer ingredients on Wednesdays.  I have some amazing crockpot recipes I do on other occasions, but one of the things I am looking for on busy family nights is ease as well.  Fix it fast, eat it fast! So yes, these are BASIC!

Yes, I was a classroom teacher. No, I never ever used a pre-fab test. Why not? They weren’t good enough. I found they barely scratched the surface of what we were studying, and they never covered the cool stuff we added on the fly!

Assessments happen. They happen when you ask your children about a book they read. They happen when you build a project together. And they happen when it’s time for a standardized test. Assessments happen any time you are measuring what a student is learning.

Some states require homeschooling parents to have a high school diploma or GED, but many states have no educational qualifications for homeschool parents. If some people we encounter knew that this was the minimal amount of education legally needed to homeschool, they might roll their eyes and think homeschooled children are merely sliding by with the bare minimum.

Do you find yourself skipping art altogether because of a failed art curriculum in the past? Is it easy to trudge through your math and language arts books and somehow get through it by the end of the year. Then you leave your art plans by the wayside?