Find Your Child’s Learning Style
Here's the deal with homeschooling. If you're going to turn your back on the traditional style of schooling, you'll need to make it worth while. How do you do that?…
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December 1, 2016
Know Your State Laws
One of the first questions people used to ask when we were first starting out was "is that legal"? It is absolutely legal in all 50 states for you to…
December 1, 2016
Get Started Homeschooling
New to homeschooling? The very idea of homeschooling can be overwhelming. There's so much information out there. So much curriculum. So many different approaches. Where are you supposed to start?…
November 30, 2016
Curriculum Choices 2014-2015
Remember that time I decided what we would be using for this year? Yeah, well, I made a few light changes. Don't be surprised, don't act like you've never done…
September 17, 2014
The Homeschooler’s Contract
Before we moved to NorCal I took a good survey of the local private schools. I found two that I deemed worthy of even a glance, which upon further inspection,…
September 4, 2014
Why do I homeschool? Why DON’T you?
The Kidd is entering 4th grade this year and apparently this is the year people believe that school is getting “serious” and we need to stop “playing around” with his education. Because, you know, middle school starts soon and he’ll never “fit in” because he’ll be weird and unsocialized. He also won’t know how to take standardized tests or learn any decent study skills for high school. I came across this post today from Elizabeth over at Adoption in the Real World and immediately fell in love:
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April 4, 2014
10 Black Homeschooling “Extras” {List It Tuesday}
I’m always looking for fun, interesting, and ‘different’ things to add to our homeschool experience. Here’s 15 things I hope to be able to add to our year. Not necessarily to be used all the time, maybe not even regularly, but things I’d like to have around the house to use when we’re looking for some kind of change–oh, and not ALL off them are necessarily geared towards black students.
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April 1, 2014