Category: The Home School Zone

Honeybun has a knack for getting really frustrated with new math concepts. Getting her to even attempt regrouping (borrowing with subtraction) took me weeks and involved a lot of crying, from both of us. But …

As a homeschooling family, we are constantly faced with judgement from others. We are still part of a lesser-known and very misunderstood group. We are modern homeschoolers who chose this path for a multitude of …

As homeschoolers, we use try to use every opportunity we can for learning and often take advantage of “teachable” moments where we can interject information on the spot during impromptu or unexpected situations. Holidays are …

We don’t use a science curriculum in our homeshooling program (or any curriculum, really!) But it doesn’t mean we don’t do science. We just approach elementary science a little differently: we read a lot and talk …

We’ve been using the Sequential Spelling system since we started homeschooling two years ago and while I love the program, my girls still aren’t big fans of spelling. With our new homeschool plan for this …

The Common Core State Standards have gotten a bad reputation over the past few years. The implementation across the country has been a disaster at best and many homeschooling families stay as far away from …

Today we “officially” begin our third year of homeschooling. It’s hard to believe that it’s been two years since we decided to undertake homeschooling and that this post about what makes a school day was …

Like any kids, mine love to paint. Given the choice, they would probably paint all day, every day. Unfortunately, they have a stressed out mommy who doesn’t like extra messes and so, arts and crafts …

Homeschooling can seem really overwhelming, especially when starting out. For those of us who aren’t familiar with homeschooling (as in we weren’t raised as homeschoolers or really ever known anyone who homeschooled), it’s easy to …

Last summer the girls and I undertook our European Learning Adventure and while we started out strong with our week on France and even visited Ireland, as we got closer to baby time, we did …