Our daughter has decided that she wants to gear her high school courses towards being a software engineer.  She has always been strong in ma...

I haven't taken the time to catalog all of our journeys with homeschool the past few years or so due to surgeries, miscarriages and a c...

We will only be choosing about half of the books (poems) from this list for the year.  Also, I haven't screened all of the books either,...

Beowulf: A New Telling - Nye Sir Gawain and the Green Knight - Tolkien The Canterbury Tales - McCaughrean The Inferno of Dante - Alighie...

We recently moved from Washington state to Ohio and we love it here!  We have more room in our new home and are able to have a homeschool ro...

Starting in the Logic Stage, which is grades 5-8, you will want to teach the child to outline.  The Well-Trained Mind explains why a slow p...

I planned out our 7th grade year earlier this year and since then, I've made a few changes.  This is our tentative 7th grade plans: B...

K's book list for 6th grade to go along with what she is reading in her Ancient history studies: Tales of Ancient Egypt - Green The ...

A common question I have been asked over the past 7 years that I've homeschooled has been: "How do you homeschool?"  There are...

Here is a list of posts about what curriculum we are using for 6th grade: Language Arts - English, Spelling, Latin, Reading and Writing M...

For 6th grade science, we will be doing block studies of botany, anatomy and zoology.  We have several science encyclopedias and will use th...

Another awesome physics project from the Gears set!

K isn't a big fan of history and it is the one subject that she isn't too enthused about writing a narration for.  I had her evaluat...

K built her 2nd physics project - a car window crank.  She didn't understand it at first and I had to explain to her that we used to hav...

We have accumulated a lot of science, history or other books that pertain to homeschool topics and I wanted them organized even more than ju...

K has already completed a study of history from ancient times to modern, so she will be starting the chronological cycle all over again. F...

In Math , K will be finishing up Saxon Math 6/5 and starting 7/6 mid-year hopefully.  We use Saxon Teacher and love, love, love it!! Fo...

For English , we are still in Rod and Staff English 5 but continuing on with R&S English 6 - we love this curriculum!  It also teaches w...

K is really enjoying physics and one of the recent projects she made was an crank fan from the K'nex Simple Machines Gears Kit .  She wa...

Here are the books that K read this past year for 4rd grade and also the read-alouds we read to her. I was pretty lenient this year for th...

Some of these are family read-a-louds and some are extra independent reading for K that pertain to what she is studying in history.  They ar...

I like having books on a variety of topics available for my kids, so when they have a yearning for a certain subject, chances are we will ha...

Here is an index of posts of what we are using for 5th grade: Bible, Logic and Foreign Language Math, Writing, English and Spelling His...

For history we have took our time and are just now getting to Story of the World Volume 4 .  I don't regret it though because we have r...