Category: homeschool
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How I’m keeping math fun
When Kathryn was little, she loved to find math fact problems in everyday life. Especially on digital clocks. For instance, 2:46 was 2 + 4 = 6, and so on. She loved the patterns (still does) and the logic (still does) but liked math itself less as time went on. As my firstborn and first…
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Interest-led nature study on the coast
Y’all. I had big plans this year for nature study. We were going to do Barb’s awesome outdoor hour challenges like I did back when Kathryn was little. We were all going to have nature journals and update them regularly. We’d even incorporate art lessons with our nature journals. It would be Elementary Nature Study…
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Apologia Physical Science for High School
We’ve used Apologia for science for years now, in elementary school and now for high school. Kathryn absolutely LOVED their Marine Biology curriculum so it wasn’t difficult to convince her to use another Apologia curriculum for this year’s science. See also: how we used Apologia’s Marine Biology in our relaxed homeschool. We haven’t adhered to…
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Visual Latin homeschool curriculum review
We’ve studied a few languages around here. I’ve taken an online Cherokee class (and would love to do more later on) and Kathryn has studied Hebrew, but for high school we decided Latin would be most useful for her. After looking into a few options, we chose Visual Latin homeschool curriculum from Compass Classroom. Disclosure:…
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On sending Scout to school
I’ve had a number of questions about how school is going for Scout, how we made the decision to enroll her in school, and so on. Now that we’re halfway through the school year, it’s a good time to address all that. We’ve been homeschooling for 11 years and I’m still as pro-homeschooling as ever….