Update... My son and I went to the library last night in search of some books. We ended up getting...The Lightning Thief, The Biography of...
JUST found this fun little website from Elements of Language that "models" different forms of writing for middle and high school.
Ugh! The dreaded Essay writing! I know what you're going through and I wish I had some advice. Seems like all the "helpful tips" on writing an...
Geez, that book (that your teacher friend talked about) MUST have been pretty bad if he wasn't referring to "Twilight," cause the sparkly vampire...
Jackie - I'm glad you said that because I was starting to think that maybe I was just being a little over "protective." But now I see that if a...
Thank you so much ladies for all your fabulous suggestions...you've all been a huge help! The books about Knights and Dragons look especially...
Ok, I've been hunting down titles for books that my son can read...and not having any luck. My son is in the 6th grade and isn't much of a...
This just shows how your children are really THINKING and REASONING...not just memorizing facts to pass a test. Homeschooling helps encourage and...
Some kids just DO better with the one-on-one type of education. I know for my son...he gets distracted very easily...and when he went to public...
Took me a sec, but I got it! LOL! I was so focused on the words themselves and on his face that I didn't "see" what was in the background.
Honestly, when my son went to public school, he didn't learn a whole lot IN school. It was when I helped him with homework that he really learned...
Your daughter obviously flourished when you spent the summer getting her up to grade level. The charter school just put her behind again. Pull...
Jackie, is RuneScape like Grepolis?
Minecraft is an "indie" game that allows the user to build his own world in 3D. The graphics are rough, but for kids who like Legos and building...
I wish I could take the credit for my son's "sudden" interest in proper grammar, but alas, I cannot. Actually, he has been researching how to...
My son, who is in the 6th grade, has been improving greatly with his typing skills (actually, thanks to an online video game called Minecraft!...
Our nation is going to have a glut of college kids who are deeply in debt and hurting for a job...ANY job. The sad thing is that many went to...
Gosh, hearing all these stories of terrible libraries makes me feel thankful for the run down library in my po-dunk town. It does have a decent...
That IS exciting, Lindina! Now this young man has a chance to succeed. Obviously, ps has been ignoring his needs and he has been pushed to the...
Public schools will skip whole sections in a textbook if it doesn't cover stuff necessary for testing. Teachers basically "teach to the test" and...
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