Category: The Home School Zone

Math seems to be the hot topic in education lately, and more specifically how it is taught using the “new” methods of Common Core (which is actually a big misunderstanding, more on that here). It’s …

School has been a struggle since we started back after the holidays.  Between my morning sickness and being busy with a million other things, I haven’t been good on keeping up with the girls’ school …

It’s been a really long day, at the end of a really long week. Life has informed us that for now, our future is in Florida.  With that fact in hand plus the upcoming arrival …

This weekend we went out to an early dinner and afterwards we decided to putz around the bookstore rather than go home and drive each other crazy until bed time. The girls always run straight …

Last year Sugarplum and I had a fantastic Valentine’s party with yummy snacks and fun toddler crafts.  We decided to try again this year with a new homeschool group I set up and while I didn’t …

When we started homeschooling in the fall, we decided to buy the girls their own tablet for completing research projects and once in a while playing math games, practicing handwriting or reading. I still really …

A lot of interesting reads have come across my computer screen the past week, prompting me to want to start a “Thoughts for Thursday” series.  I don’t know that it will be a weekly thing …

Any parent or teacher who has done math with a first or second grader has probably had the experience of embarking on the task of adding three numbers together and what a life changing moment it …

Today is a pretty cool day in our house: Today is our 100th day of homeschooling!  When we took this big step over 5 months ago, I know we’d make it.  And I was pretty …

Since we started homeschooling in August, we’ve been working in our dining room which was fine, it suited us but then Thanksgiving came and we had to put school away to have dinner!  That weekend we …