We are preparing for the 2021-22 school year, during which we will be homeschooling yet again. Pessimists are rarely disappointed. I’m a cynical pessimist with…
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We are preparing for the 2021-22 school year, during which we will be homeschooling yet again. Pessimists are rarely disappointed. I’m a cynical pessimist with…
After 120 days of officially homeschooling for 2020-21, I realized we needed to upgrade our record keeping. Depending on state laws and local public schools,…
Workbook publishers, you have made my life difficult as a homeschooling parent. We purchase perforated workbooks so we can remove pages and give them one…
We made it to day 90, the half-way point for the 180-day standard curriculum maps. Following the Texas standards and Common Core, which mostly overlap,…
Homeschooling requires a lot of energy. Unfortunately, I’m exhausted. Working as a college instructor and on other projects, along with homeschooling both daughters, leaves me…
Our daughters are now on track, having caught up with both Common Core and Texas standards as of this week. Understand that such standards are…
Screen time wasn’t working well for our daughters, so we’ve migrated back to worksheets, composition books, and physical textbooks for the majority of their school…
Our daughters and I assembled a simple Windows computer for them to use for homeschooling tasks. We haven’t had a Windows system for many years…
Grade-level expectations and academic achievement took a backseat to “treading water” after March 13, 2020, according to my colleagues in K12. It was hard enough…
During the summers, we maintain “summer enrichment” activities for our daughters. With schooling forced online in March 2020, we’ve done all we can to simply…