How does the idea of getting your children to write a novel in a month sound to you? Incredible? Well, it might be, but last year 35,000 kids were involved in NaNoWriMo’s Young Writers Program. NaNoWriMo stands for National Novel Writing Month. Last year Miss 17 and Miss 12 participated. For the entire month of November they […]
High School
Homeschooling Success…Despite Distractions
Well, we had another week of distractions like Thanksgiving, harvesting, preserving, cleaning up the garden, and more, but we had some major homeschooling breakthroughs despite that. Miss 8 can read! She whizzes through the instructions in her workbook, hardly stumbles in her reader, picks up easy reader books for fun, and comments on what I’m […]
How We Study Dutch
I speak Dutch, my husband understands it somewhat, and our children are learning it in a very casual but effective way, mostly through stories and songs. To increase vocabulary and improve speaking skills, the children also use Rosetta Stone, a program that effectively reviews many simple words and concepts, but the real meat of our learning […]