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With many families in the midst of planning and buying homeschool curriculum for the upcoming school year, it’s helpful to see the ways in which money (and time) can be saved! From now until May 18, 2020, the Build Your Bundle sale offers amazing savings along with well-known curriculum. It is packed full of resources for both your home and your school – a little something for everyone.  There are SO many things in the Build Your Bundle sale that I am excited to share with you! Several of the products are ones that we have used in years past (or...

For some parents the pandemic lockdown has come with an unexpected side effect: an awakened look at their children’s education. Some parents have come to realize that their kids are mostly bogged down with busywork instead of meaningful learning. Others have experienced the unfortunate surprise of seeing what their children are being taught (and what they’re not). Some have felt relief from witnessing their children as they experience a taste of freedom from the confines of school or seeing how they are thriving in their newly found free time. Maybe beauty and peace have returned to their homes. Maybe their...

The end of the year is coming and it’s time to wrap up homeschooling. Before you rush off to your much-deserved summer break, take some time to assess your homeschool. Here is a homeschool year-end assessment guide to help you can finish out the year strong. Setting and Meeting Homeschool Goals Did you start the year with lofty goals? Goals are part of planning. Now is the time to take out that list of goals, again. How many have you met? Are there any goals that were unrealistic? Did one of your children blow your goals out of the water?...

No two children are alike, but I’ve found a flexible plan to teach grammar that has worked for all my kids from Kindergarten to high school graduation! You see, I’m not a big grammar fan–it seems boring and hard to remember, so I had to find a way to teach my children and learn along with them. Of course, I tried to never show my secret dislike of grammar to my children and funny thing is, now I like it! I think like most people I learned in a way that confused me so teaching grammar to my own children...

I usually have my homeschool curriculum picked out by February. In all honesty, I did this year too, but I put off writing because there were some possible things up in the air, and then all those bricks came tumbling down in March as we went into lockdown, so I’m going to write the plans as they are now, and we’ll see how it changes later. So here’s my provisional 10th-grade homeschool curriculum. (yeah there are lots of affiliate links in here) My hopes for 10th Grade Homeschooling Seriously, why do they do this? I put off publishing this list...