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Homeschooling a Handful

  This week’s Blog Cruise question is, “How do you handle multiple ages?”   Although I’m still looking for the perfect answer to that question, here’s what I’ve learned so far with our five children.   Choose your curriculum carefully.  There are wonderful programs, such as Ambleside Online, that take a lot of a mother’s […]

Help! Need Advice for Newbie HS Mom

I have been asked to give some advice to a young mom who has come to the conclusion that she should probably homeschool next year.  This was not her dream in life, and her five children are very young—the oldest is in public school grade 2.  What is the most important, most helpful information to […]

Homeschool Crew Review: AVKO Membership

   AVKO (Audio, Visual, Kinesthetic, Oral) Educational Research Foundation offers a wide range of help for those struggling with dyslexia or other reading and spelling issues.  Its mission is “to provide free and low-cost resources to home and school educators in order to achieve literacy for all, even despite learning challenges or dyslexia.”  Don McCabe, the […]

Homeschool Crew Review: DISCOVER Online, EXPLORE, and PLAN

As you know, I’m from Canada, where many of the US teen institutions are not a big deal.  Prom, college (as opposed to university), fraternities and sororities, SAT tests, and ACT tests are all mostly south-of-the-border things.  In fact, I didn’t even really hear about SAT and ACT tests until very recently.  So much for […]

Homeschool Crew Review: abcteach

  We’re not a worksheet kind of family.  At all.  So when we were offered a month’s free membership with abcteach, I wasn’t excited. I thought it was just some massive, boring worksheet factory.  Dutifully I began to explore the site so that I could write a review… and what I found thrilled me.  There’s […]