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 Kathryn was my experimental child. … [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 homeschool. We haven't … [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 Classroom. Disclosure: we received … [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 criticism from someone other than … [Read more...] about High school writing: Personal Statement essay
Using Apologia’s Marine Biology in a relaxed homeschool
My teen is 100% in love with the ocean. We are relaxed, interest-led homeschoolers, but I like to have at least one key resource to build our curriculum around. This year, for her, it's been Apologia's Exploring Creation with Marine Biology. We've used other Exploring Creation books in Kathryn's elementary years, and I'll use them again with the … [Read more...] about Using Apologia’s Marine Biology in a relaxed homeschool
U.S. Atlas for Homeschool geography
Because we're relaxed homeschoolers, I like to keep good resources handy. It's one of the best ways for the kids to learn, even when I haven't assigned them specific work. One of our most recent resources is a pretty little atlas of the United States. Disclosure: I received this product for the purposes of review, and have been … [Read more...] about U.S. Atlas for Homeschool geography