Election Year
Election year gives you a special opportunity to teach your student the process America goes...
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Category: Academics
Enriching your Homeschool through Cooking – Part 2
In my previous article, we considered the benefits—both practical and experiential—that cooking...
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Enriching your Homeschool through Cooking – Part 1
Let’s face it. We all love food…even picky eaters have that one food they will ask for again and...
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Essay Grading: A Manageable and Amicable Way
Evaluating essays can pose large challenges for parents. For multiple reasons, we can become...
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Reading, is There a Science to it?
Reading has to be taught. We don’t intuitively know how to interpret those letters on the page. We...
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The Importance of Learning Basic Math
The latest buzz in math nowadays seems to be teaching kids the “why” behind math and emphasizing...
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Assessing Your Curriculum
If you are following a traditional school year or have a schedule unique to your family, the...
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Time to Evaluate
You are a few weeks into your academic year. Things are going smoothly. You have located all your...
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Supplements 101
What are supplements? What are they for? How are they different from a curriculum? With a whole...
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Electing the High School Electives
In the great big world of homeschooling high school how does a parent/student team choose the...
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Program Dissonance
Don’t feel badly if you haven’t heard this term. It’s entirely possible that I made it up. But, it...
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History: Teaching with Perspective
Something we often hear from parents is how much they are learning about history when...
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