This is hard to write, but there are days that homeschooling is so hard, you want to crawl in a hole. Why? Some days no matter how you explain a concept, you feel as you are failing, as a teacher in teaching your child something new. If you happen to ask someone else who isn’t…
First, be ready to get creative. And by creative, don’t let them know they are learning something unless you have too…Grammar is going to be one of those. Now, I am not saying that all educational activities should be fun. In fact, children must learn to not be entertained. However, history, science, geography and Bible…
The pictures in this post will be familiar, but I wanted to show how the supply organization has crossed over to our Writing Center. A couple of weeks ago I wrote about my plans to put together a writing center. As I was thinking through how I would put together a writing center, I kept in…
I am excited to let my readers know about an opportunity that my family has been blessed with. I contacted Learning Link Technologies after another blogger contacted me explaining the company was looking for review bloggers with struggling learners. Since I have three with different issues, I contacted them, and we are now on our…
I never thought I would hear my children exclaim that learning spelling rules was fun…Seriously Fun? However, over the last several weeks, we have had the opportunity to review Wordy Qwerty ($35) by Talking Fingers the makers of Read Write and Type, review here. Wordy Qwerty contains twenty consecutive lessons that will teach your children…
When you are a homeschool family with a special needs child, there comes a time that you find what works. The sooner the better. There are many families with more then one special needs child. Our family is blessed—yes, I do mean blessed, to be one of those families. We have one child with dysgraphia,…
In our family we try to make learning something that becomes part of our lives. One of our mottos is “We can always learn something new”. When I began homeschooling, I was doing just that, School at home, and it did not go well. As I have become more aware of my children’s interests, and…
Do you have a child that is struggling with writing, not just hand writing, but putting his or her thoughts onto paper? I do, and I have worked for going on three years to work with this student to get to a point where he can write and it make sense. We have a ways…
As part of my job on The Old Schoolhouse Review Crew, I was asked to review Peterson Directed Handwriting. This is a handwriting program unlike any other we have tried in our home. There are both gross and small motor activities to help improve the motor skill needed for good handwriting. I tried this with…
