This year my printer has been giving me problems. Sometimes the head is off and magenta isn’t printing quite right. Other times it’s refusing to talk to my computer. It’s made me realize there are ten essential office supplies we need for a functioning homeschool. Ten supplies that make life so much easier. 10 essential…
In my house, the books we use for homeschooling pile up quickly. There are textbooks for various subjects, reference books, picture books, phonics books, and general reading books. I also have piles of books we’re not using this year, but we will use next year or the year after. What do we do with all…
Getting elementary kids to read can be challenging. Reading is hard, but they need practice for it to become easy. That takes time. Use these ten elementary reading tips to encourage your children to spend the time and practice it takes for reading to become easy and fun. Elementary Reading Tips 1. Read at bedtime…
40 Latin Resources for Your Homeschool Are you looking for Latin resources or games to spice up your Latin studies? After all, we can only drill so long before everyone goes batty. Using fun worksheets or games changes up the studies, keeps us fresh, and makes learning fun. Latin Resources Games and Activities Books Videos…
10 Tips for Building Middle School Vocabulary Building middle school vocabulary in our kids becomes increasingly important. The SAT and ACT tests are looming large. Advanced writing for high school and college requires a larger vocabulary than young kids have. So how do we increase our middle school kids’ vocabulary? 1. Read, Read, and Read There…
Classical Conversations Classical Conversations is a popular Christian co-op approach to classical education. Just like The Well-Trained Mind: A Guide to Classical Education at Home and Teaching the Trivium: Christian Homeschooling in a Classical Style, it’s based upon Dorothy Sayers’s Lost Tools of Learning. My family has never participated in Classical Conversations. When it was first…
