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 homeschooled, I suppose … [Read more...] about How I’m keeping math fun
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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 … [Read more...] about Apologia Physical Science for High School
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 … [Read more...] about Visual Latin homeschool curriculum review
High school writing: Personal Statement essay
A few years ago, I used the Essay Rockstar online high school writing program with Lindsey and wrote a detailed review then; I recommend reading that post because I go into more depth on the actual course. In short, I liked it because: A) it's a great program B) it gives a homeschooled student constructive … [Read more...] about High school writing: Personal Statement essay