School Supplies
School supplies on a budget - our methods [...]
DuoLingo
June 3, 2018 DuoLingo I like tools that make education fun. This little application is fun, comprehensive, and easy to use. Louis found it, as he’s the language nut in our household. (Seriously, seven languages plus ASL?) I thought I was good with fluency in two and working knowledge in [...]
Any Book is Curriculum
April 14, 2018 Any Book is Curriculum In our homeschool curriculum, we have base books that everyone has to go through. These are standards like Arithmetic and Language Arts. I add vocabulary workbooks to teach etymology. Once etymology is learned, the student usually finds spelling and vocabulary far easier so [...]
Homeschooling Challenge: Their Own Pace
April 12, 2018 Homeschooling Challenge: Their Own Pace One of the challenges I’ve discovered in our home school journey comes from my philosophy to never keep one student back for another. I allow them to advance at their own pace – if this means we spend eight weeks constantly studying [...]
Creating Characters: Web of Deception
February 11, 2018 Creating Characters: Web of Deception The first of my epic fantasy novels to be published, Web of Deception, has some of my favorite characters. It took over seven years of development and several revisions to complete this work. I’m a bit of a perfectionist, so I never [...]
A New Spot for Adventures
Naming their school work spots! Today is at the Tortuga past the Black Spots and the Outer Rim... [...]
Home School Organization
A little about our home school organization. [...]
Birthday Day Off
October 26, 2017 Birthday Day Off We are a homeschool family. Sometimes this means we goof off and play games on birthdays instead of do bookwork. But consider how much learning is crammed into everyday life! Money skills: Today’s practicum included working and saving (racing around to do enough chores [...]