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 […]
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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 […]