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September is quickly approaching and I’m beginning to think ahead to the next school year. This year my children and I are joining a local homeschool co-op. Homeschool co-ops are a group of families with similiar interests and beliefs that get together to enhance their children’s education. Every co-op is different. Some may choose […]

I’ve never been one to bash public schools. My son attended public school for kindergarten and first grade and had great success. I have no complaints about the education he received while he was there and I only pulled him out of public school because I had quit my job and was able to teach […]

Have you ever heard of The Flat Stanley Project? It is a program created by a third grade teacher to help students learn to write letters to each other. I think that letter writing is an important skill to learn, but I also think that Flat Stanley could be used for so much more. In […]

I hear plenty of parents who say that they would love to homeschool if only they could afford it. There are plenty of ways to minimize the cost involved in homeschooling, but there are also plenty of ways to go broke as well. I tend to be one of the people who go broke. I’ve […]

When I started out homeschooling I did quite a bit of research in to the state laws and the different curriculum types. I read a book or two about the benefits of homeschooling and I joined a couple of email groups with other homeschoolers. One thing that I did not do was sit down and […]

The school year is slowly winding down around here. Yeah, yeah. We still have a month to go. So what? A month isn’t that long! Besides, if we worked REAL hard, we could probably finish up in two weeks. OR! We could be REAL lazy and get done in a month. I think we all […]

My time as a homeschooling mother of one is coming to an abrupt halt. Cindy-Lu, age 3, will begin pre-school (for real this time) at home with me. I sent her to a “real” pre-school for a couple of months, but it wasn’t working out schedule wise, so I pulled her out and decided we […]