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Marking High School Writing

  The most difficult part of homeschooling high school is the marking, and the most difficult part of that is marking my teens’ writing.  How can I be objective?  How can I be sure I am not being too strict?  How can I be sure I am not being too lenient?    Last year we […]

Learning New Skills and Crafts

  This summer I added a new section to our children’s weekly to-do lists, a column for a skill or craft.  The craft may be the artsy kind, involving yarn or hot glue guns, but it can also be “a skill in an occupation or trade,” much to the relief of my non-crafty offspring.  This […]

Summer Project: Plan Those High School Years

  “If you fail to plan, you plan to fail.”  Haven’t we all heard that and not done anything about it in our own lives…and survived?   When it comes to the high school years, however, this quote can be so true.  I’ve heard of sad mix-ups that could have been prevented by a bit […]

One of the Best Home Schooling Books: 100 Top Picks for Homeschool Curriculum

  At this time of year we home school moms haul out our glossy curriculum catalogues and dream.  Then we order, and occasionally what we order matches the dream instead of our day-to-day reality.  We make expensive curriculum mistakes because we misunderstand our educational philosophy, our own teaching style, or our children’s learning styles.  We […]

End of School Records

  In the summer, we’ve always been so busy finishing school work that I’ve never properly written up what the children have done in the previous year.  This year, finishing early, there is time before the summer rush begins.  I’m so pleased with how our first end-of-year summaries have turned out!    For the record-keeping-challenged, […]