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 […]
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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, […]