After my last post for Autism *Understanding* I was asked to make one specifically for kids so that they could help young children und...

Autism exists!!! Oh, wait, you already knew that? But that's all you need to know to have awareness, right? No? Hmm, well, how abo...

Vocabulary: Wordly Wise Book 3 and 4 Handwriting: Zaner Bloser workbooks Grammar: Finish First Language Lessons 3 and do all of FLL 4 Spe...

Another First Day of School happened this week. Our 5th one so far. I took pictures and then tried not to cry over the obvious differences i...

A continuation of what we're doing with logic before beginning formal logic in 5th grade in the fall. ( Part 1 here .)

While we have been doing things differently than a strictly classical education approach in the last few years, I still like to "chec...

I love the homeschooler changing a lightbulb joke. You know the one: " How does a homeschooler change a lightbulb?   First, mom chec...

In October my good friend babysat all three kids for me for several hours. When I went to pick them up from her house she asked me to stay f...

We recently completed the Wordly Wise series A, B, and C and have moved on to Wordly Wise 3000 workbooks. We first started these workbook...

So I'm in full blown costume making mode. And I have the spray painted fingers to prove it! We've usually gone simple for costumes b...

The goals: Finish First Language Lessons level 3 and 4 in one year's time and be prepared to move on to 5th grade grammar at the be...

We finally found our homeschooling groove! I wrote here about the general things that helped us find it. Now here are the specifics of what...

This is our 4th year homeschooling. I have seen it said that it usually takes 3-4 years to get your homeschool groove. This has been true...

Here we are at our fourth first day of school. I know it's cliche to say, but it really does seem like we just had our very first day ...

This month's Hoagies blog hop is about Overexcitiblites, something I have mentioned several times before on my blog. Both Builder Boy an...

Part 5 (and last one!) of my series wrapping up what we learned this year in different subjects and what each experience taught me about ho...

Part 4 of my series wrapping up what we learned this year in different subjects and what each experience taught me about homeschooling in ...

Part 3 of my series wrapping up what we learned this year in different subjects and what each experience taught me about homeschooling in ge...

I grew up in households that did not talk about emotions and expected you to stop strong emotions before they became a problem. It was the e...

Last year I wrote one post comparing what I had planned at the beginning of the year with what actually happened . This year I'm writ...