Not Another Homeschool Blog

 Not all of the homeschooling questions I receive are from people looking to homeschool. Sometimes they come from people who are against it, or want to stir the pot. Here is one such question. Question: Why would you want to homeschool your children? Answer: Why wouldn't I want to homeschool my children? Seriously! If there is something crazy or

OK, I think I've finally gotten it right!   One of the reasons we start homeschooling in August is so that by September 1, we have made all of our adjustments and are on track to complete our curriculum by late spring. So far, I have adjusted the kids literature courses, Adjusted my son's Spanish, and this morning, I adjusted the Biology. The literature courses (Skills or Literary Analysis and American Literature: Encouraging Thoughtful...

Stat's tell me that dozens of people read my blog about the book giveaway.  Investigation told me that several people entered. But one... only one person followed instructions of the giveaway, and so the book goes to Mrs. C. Mrs. C, please email me your information at ahermitt (at) gmail (dot) com. FREE HOME EDUCATION WEBSITE MY BUSINESS WEBSITE WalletPop Contributor

 The other day, I wrote about my anxiety about teaching the hard parts of American History , most specifically black history.  The good news, is that once I write these things down and get them out of my heart, I am pretty much over it. Now I get to enjoy the good parts about it.  Yesterday we spent an hour discussing westward expansion and

I love the fact that we can make the students curriculum cohesive by making sure that different subjects follow the same time line.  For example, Right we are studying US History 2, so I was able to assign a book for literature that is from the same time period.  It was really cool today to be discussing westward migration and find Mark Twain's name listed as a reason people moved west as he'd romanticized the west. It only makes sense to be reading Huckleberry Finn right now. FREE HOME EDUCATION WEBSITE MY BUSINESS WEBSITE WalletPop Contributor