I've been using Singapore math all along, I currently have a 5, 8 and 11 year old. Based on my local public school curriculum, I find Singapore to...
Our main resource for Canadian history and social studies is the Historica Canada website. Remember those Heritage Minutes tv commercials (I smell...
I think you should just politely bow out of the production, and be honest about why... that your family enjoys the Santa tradition and you're not...
Our school name is RiverTree Homeschool. It comes from Psalms 1:2-3 But his delight is in the law of the Lord, And in His law he meditates day...
I've never taught spelling. It never occurred to me to teach spelling as a stand-alone subject. With my oldest, he was such a natural reader, that...
I second the Leap Frog videos! The Letter Factory and The Talking Word Factory are excellent.
My boys have all learned to read with a combination of Starfall (a really excellent, FREE online phonics-based program) and LeapFrog's learn to...
I think it's important to have a firm grasp on adding and subtracting concepts before moving on to multiplication. A good place to start would...
I don't have first hand experience with it yet, but I'm very intrigued by a new program out called Cover Story. It's gotten good reviews from what...
ok. I asked because my 8yo gets overwhelmed if there are too many correct answers. He gets flustered over having to pick just one answer. In...
My oldest has the same problem, and I try not to push too hard, because I had the same problem when I was in school, and I always felt really...
Do all of the questions have the same type of answer? Like 80+something, or 40+something, etc? Like, is 70 + 9 the only correct answer to that...
What is going on here lately? I've never been on a forum that gets as much spam as this one does. The entire front page here is nothing but spam...
I thought for sure I'd first seen it here, but a search isn't bringing it up for me. A few years ago there was an article circulating that...
oh, you have my utmost sympathies :( My MIL has always been very disapproving of our homeschooling. She actually has disapproved of most of our...
Welcome :) That would probably fit best in the general "Homeschooling" forum :)
I wanted to add something else, because I was also on the fence about my feelings about this... wondering what would make these parents so adamant...
Um, yeah, good point!
I 100% agree with that article. The compulsory school age in my province is 6 years old, though kindergarten in public schools starts at age 5....
It really bothers me that when they returned to Germany after leaving the first time, all of their passports were taken away from them. Now they...
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