As a homeschooling parent, it can be helpful to find out how your child is progressing with reading skills. On this post you will find links to free assessments to give you more information on your child’s skills.
5th and 6th Grade Reading Book List
If you want to build vocabulary and reading comprehension skills, classic literature is a great place to start. These books have stood the test of time and are written by gifted writers who know how to craft a sentence. You will find more complex vocabulary in classic books too!
7 Tips for Parenting Tweens and Teens
Parenting teens and tweens is not for the faint of heart. Parenting in general is […]
Movies as Literature Curriculum Review
Movies as Literature is a different approach to literature reading and analysis. The curriculum is […]
A Typical Day?
This is our 9th year homeschooling. Earlier this year I started to record a typical […]
Literature with Doctor Who
I designed this literature study for my 6th and 8th grade boys who love Doctor […]
Scratch Programming
My son loves computers and has dreams of being a game designer one day. Over […]
Music Theory Fun
Back when my boys were young and we were still new to homeschooling, I purchased Music […]
Visiting Tanzania
We “visited” Tanzania recently. While an actual visit would be have preferable, this visit didn’t […]
Our Unit Studies for the 2015-2016 School Year
As an eclectic homeschooler, I like to combine different resources into a study that is designed […]