Caytw: Homeschool Mom

I started planning for Merry’s junior year (grade 11) about Christmas of last year. I started by looking at what her sister had done. Then I...

We’re coming to the end of our block schedule trial period, and I think it has worked well.  It’s always nice when ideas are in fact as good...

We jumped back into school last week, and immediately we were floundering. Day one it was obvious that fitting eight subjects into the day, ...

English is such a broad topic. Reading, spelling, writing, grammar, speeches, and literature all forms parts of the subject. Rather than loo...

Social Sciences can be hard to pin down. They include everything from history to geography to civics to cultural studies.  Like science, in ...

So while writing my math review last week I realized there was another subject which Merry has used one curriculum exclusively, science.  He...

Hopefully this will be a series were I look back at our previous curriculum choices and see how we got to where we are. Starting with Mathem...