Teaching Poetry to our children: the idea sounds picturesque, high society, serene and intimidating. The reality I have found is that it’s simple, fun and easy. Last year, we started including it because it was part of our curriculum from Sonlight.
the middle years: they are a transition point between the foundational years of learning in elementary school and the high school years of beginning to apply your knowledge to real life. When you are homeschooling middle school years are a good time to look both backwards and forwards in time.
Last weekend he requested new handwriting pages based on our family’s new favorite TV show, the Mandalorian. He helped me make these by using his amazing memory skills to compile many of quotes and phrases used in the Mandalorian Handwriting Set.
We decided to use it as an opportunity to open her a bank account. We also started looking for a homeschool curriculum for personal finance to help her learn to managing her money well.
The best learning-to-read homeschool curriculum is the one that fits your family. Having an autistic student, one with dyslexia, and one who was an early reader meant we used a variety of programs and methods to learn to read and they all ended with the same results, a young person who could read and loves doing so.
