Depends how you look at it. In many ways, today's high school graduate is equivalent to a 10 or 12 year old of Puritan New England. The reason...
Agree, Saxon is great. If you work consistently, I don't see how the kids would not learn. We're finishing up Algebra 2, ready for Advanced Math.
We skip the tests also. If they do the practice problems each day and you review it and see from the look on their face that "they get it", the...
G.K. Chesterton All time favorite author is G. K. Chesterton with C. S. Lewis a close second. Chesterton's most famous work is Orthodoxy...
Agreed on Inkscape. Earlier I posted about it in the "Favorite Websites" forum.
If you have older kids, let them download and install Inkscape. This is a free program that has many of the same features as Adobe Illustrator....
I used to work for a computer/semiconductor company specializing in graphics and professional gaming is indeed big business. I agree it's not a...
I am not affiliated with Vision Forum, but I appreciate their perspective. They are offering a free CD on the dad's role in home education, for a...
We were in 9th last year and used text books for math (Saxon) and geography (Bob Jones). All else mainly reading great books and outlining or...
We love the literature based approaches. Used Sonlight early on and went with a more eclectic/custom mix in middle school and now high school....
Our site has a lot of detail on what we did for 7th grade. 6th and 8th available as well - as mentioned, you should tailor to each child's...
If you pay taxes, you're affected by the government's schools. So all HS'ers should stay involved.
Texas History We study it in 7th grade, as part of U.S. History. We study all of U.S. History and when we get to about 1820 we focus n Texas for...
Plus, as your daughter gets a little older, they will be very close and play together, etc. It's rough when they are real young but about age 4 &...
I'm a homeschool dad - joined this site a couple weeks ago. I have a website/blog for dads to encourage homeschooling. Check it out and if you...
We use M-U-S through intermediate, then switch to Saxon about 5th/6th grade. Saxon is more suited to self-pacing so I like it better for older...
I agree Saxon is the best that I've seen. Pretty simple and "traditional" but it works. We started with MathUSee and transitioned to Saxon about...
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