Homeschooling Teens

As I am re-embarking on teaching my 17 year old daughter, it has occurred to me that I feel very inadequate. I’m not even homeschooling her full time, but two English classes at home is enough to remind me that she’s been so brainwashed in the public school scene that I may never

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What a week!

weekly wrap-up

Oh yes, what a week it has been! Here it is, Sunday, and I am finally getting to my Weekly Wrap-Up post.  If you’re reading this you must know at least ONE thing I’ve been up to this week, since my blog is now located on it’s own hosting service, with a

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A Fair Wrap-up

This week was more productive than last, I think. The boys were on task much more. The MOM was on task much better, too! I let them go back to their Handwriting Without Tears books, but changed up handwriting time. They can write and listen at the same time (usually), so now

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Modifying OFE3

I have written that I was going to modify our Old Fashioned Education, Level 3 schedule to fit our trimesters. I have it written out in a notebook for me, but I just got done typing it up- mostly for you Before you take a look, let me explain just a tad.

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First Week Wrap-Up

Yes, it really was the first week of school and it really WAS a week! A four-day week, but a WEEK nonetheless.

We started school on Tuesday, and I think it went relatively well. I am trying to instill some new habits in my kids and myself as well. These

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