In a world designed for extroverts—busy classrooms, group projects, noisy lunchrooms—introverted children can sometimes feel overwhelmed, unseen, or misunderstood. Homeschooling...
Curriculum, thoughts about homeschooling, and homeschool related topics.
In a world designed for extroverts—busy classrooms, group projects, noisy lunchrooms—introverted children can sometimes feel overwhelmed, unseen, or misunderstood. Homeschooling...
I recently came across an interesting resource for learning about animals in Arizona. It’s called the Bone Box, and it’s...
We finally finished our unit on lizards in the Sonoran Desert. It took us a month to do the unit...
One of the most common objections to homeschooling is, “You can’t homeschool your older kids when you have younger kids....
Have you ever spent a lot of money on a curriculum only to find that it wasn’t a good match...
A few weeks ago, we learned so much about snakes in the Sonoran Desert of Arizona. Like usual, we read...
A challenging part of being a parent is having small children who get sick often. There are seasons in life...
In my previous posts about building a homeschool library, I wrote about including nonfiction and poetry. Today I am going...
Over the past few years I have been slowly adding poetry books for reading aloud to our homeschool library. I...
One of the best parts of homeschooling is building a homeschool library. It sounds intimidating, but it’s actually a whole...
When I first started homeschooling, I expected negative reactions from people. I geared myself up for defending my position, but...
Homeschooling young children can at first seem daunting. Thankfully, even though homeschooling can appear to be a lot of work,...