Are You Considering Unschooling for Kindergarten, or weighing the benefits of delaying Kindergarten altogether? Either way, you’re on the right track! Kids who start formal education later, as late as seven year old, do better than children who begin at age five. Researchers have shared startling new data about what’s best for our five year … Read more
Teach a Child to Tell Time Is your child developmentally ready? Does she have the requisite skills? What methods and materials are likely to be the most helpful to teach a child to tell time? We’ll cover all that and more. Telling time is a life skill that builds slowly. There are add-on skills … Read more
Reading With a Purpose Why read? Many people never read a book after high school. A startling number of college graduates never read another book after college. They don’t like to read. They don’t want to read. They like movies, videos, TV shows and radio. These people figure reading is obsolete – at least for … Read more
Every Family Room in America Used to have a pile of board games. Not any more. Many households don’t have ANY. The internet and TV has taken their place in Americans’ hearts. I’m going to do my level best to convince you to let a few old-fashioned games, books and toys back into the family … Read more
This post is a follow-on to last week’s post about teaching subtraction facts and the previous post about addition. Please pull out your triangular flash cards and hold a review. If you’ve read both posts than you know that I’ve already explained two distinct methods for teaching the addition facts and one for teaching subtraction. … Read more
I love Math-U-See Did I use other curricula? Briefly. As a secondary math teacher, I had been trained to consider the spiral curriculum to be a good idea. As a homeschool parent, I came to realize there was no institutional requirement to keep pressing on when my children didn’t quite master a math concept. We … Read more
Language Arts, Mathematics, Science, Social Studies and Much, Much More Middle School Homeschool Curriculum should be the stuff of high adventure. You’ve laid your kids foundation in elementary school. They can read, write and perform calculations. You don’t yet have to worry about making sure your kid’s high school transcript meets the expectations of their … Read more
This Post is a Long Overdue Follow-on to the post I wrote on Teaching Addition. The addition facts are the first to be memorized, and they’re arguably the most painful and time consuming to learn. That’s why they get a post of their own. If you’re teaching your student addition for the first time, start there. … Read more
Have you ever heard of Gutenberg Books? Yes? No? Well, it doesn’t really matter if you’ve heard of Gutenberg Project books online or not. I cannot recommend this site highly enough. When great books’ copyrights expire, the good folks at Project Gutenberg make those books available at no cost to the reader in ebook form. … Read more
Ready? When you teach a child to add you are helping him take an important step toward mastering mathematics. Addition is a bridge to many practical applications and the foundation upon which you can teach subtraction, multiplication and division with ease. It’s worth the time you have to spend to get it right. Before you … Read more