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Disclosure: This blog post may contain affiliate links from my participation in the Amazon Service LLC Associates Program. I receive a small commission at no cost to you when you make a purchase using my link. Time began about 6,000 years ago when God spoke the Word and everyone came into existence. Wow! Ancient history, beginning with Creation, is amazing! What a fun epoch in history to investigate! Ancient history is a favorite in our house! We love to dig in and study Creation and the early years before the flood. We enjoy learning about Sumer, Crete, Minoa, Ancient Israel, Babylon,...

Every year, I get a few emails from people wanting to preschool their children at home and asking how to do it. But 2020 has forever changed the way parents look at education and I have so many asking for guidance. Some want to keep their preschoolers at home this fall just to be on the safe side, while others aren't even sure if the schools will open at the end of summer. I've even had a message from a grandmother who was going to be preschooling her grandchild. I can't tell you how much I loved that.This post contains...

Our homeschool curriculum choices for the 2020-2021 school year! This will be our 18th year of homeschooling! Eighteen years of homeschooling. The time has flown by so quickly! Our oldest two children have graduated from our homeschool, and now we just have three students. This year we’ll have fifth grade, ninth grade, and eleventh grade. One in elementary, and two in high school. RELATED: Homeschool Graduation Party Ideas And, this will be the last year that I have an elementary-age student! Oh, the time goes by so fast! Teaching the younger years has always been my favorite. I love doing...

Can’t stop long… there’s the garden and a million things to do. Including finish the draft of my book! But good comments about math in the last post. I will probably put my own math thoughts directly into the book. The main point will be that teaching children math is not as complicated as you think. As always, I try to give you criteria and an overview of the goals rather than minutiae, which I think are readily available elsewhere. The goal for the young child (before about 6th grade) is to arrive at full facility with operations. To get...

The bulk of our homeschooling years are spent in the elementary phase, and I believe the books and curriculum we choose is critical to our own longevity as homeschoolers. If we choose curriculum that feels official but sucks the life out of learning, we will not have the stamina or confidence to homeschool into the teen years. However, if we pick living books and read them well, alongside our children, we will be excited to enter the next phase with them, as well. I remember when my oldest turned 8 in August of 2011. I felt the weight of responsibility...