We have a 15 year old son working on 7th grade materials. He is ADD and speech impaired, among other things, due to cleft lip and palate. He was...
How About... We are using a Lit Text that is lesser known, but is rigorous and combines everything without overkill. It is one to prepare...
Us too! OhioMom, we too are Christian but homeschooling secularly....I find many of the materials not suitable for us for a variety of reasons....
I have been looking at the History Channel multimedia courses for classrooms/homeschoolers and wondering about them. Has anyone here checked them...
I have kids that are middle school aged and beginning to use the computer for more than checking out addictinggames.com, and I'd like to add a...
I guess we are more schoolish than unschoolish, but in reading some of the comments here I see we are sort of combining both as well! We use...
Writing Woes I can sympathize, and I found an interesting answer to this. My older son is using Institute for Excellence in Writing for a...
I'll chime in here with a few: Roots Anyting by O'Henry Red Badge of Courage The Hiding Place Three Cups of Tea (every young person should...
Although I have middle school aged kids, they are adopted and some are language learners home 1 year. That means we work very heavily on Language...
I needed to hear this as well, thanks everyone for reminding me that just because there are typical reading requirements in high school, that...
Thanks for the warm welcome everyone~! We love homeschooling and are NEVER going back to public ed if we can help it!
We never qualified for China due to income or weight :-) Oh well...we have the beautiful family we were meant to have. The process can be...
Thanks Steve! Wish I could connect with other Christian homeschoolers who share a similar perspective as we do instead of feeling like a very...
We seem to be in the minority among homeschoolers, as we are liberal/progressive Christians with the United Church of Christ, a denomination that...
How I can relate to this! We hesitated to homeschool 3 years ago when our eldest was in 3rd grade for this very reason...I KNEW I wouldn't fit in...
I think it goes beyond PS, I think it is lifestyle choices of public school families as well. This is NOT an attack, as I "were one of dem" a...
What a great reminder that homeschooling is about SO much more than academics. I have a delayed son, 12 years old who started homeschooling in...
All 5 of our children are adopted, 4 are from Kazakhstan and 1 is from Kyrgyzstan. We have trans-racial (Kazakh and Kyrgyz are Aisan) and ethnic...
I am wondering if anyone else is using the Connect the Thoughts curriculum for history. We started it a couple of months ago and are thoroughly...
I have a 6th grader, 2 4th graders, a 3rd grader and a 2nd grader with 2 new English learners this year. We spend about 4-5 hours solid a day,...
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