By Shari McMinn As a parent of a busy homeschooling family, especially one where challenging students can purposely wreak havoc upon best laid plans, I sometimes just need a bit of peace. Sound familiar? I either want to be ALONE somewhere, or have...
By Guest Author Laurena Townsend Teaching students to write well is no joke. It’s a complicated task. First, the students must be able to physically write. Then, they must have the intellectual maturity to understand the concept of representing...
by guest author Robyn van Eck Read part 1 here. Literary Excellence If you think children learn the beauty of our language by hearing great books read to them (and they do), guess how well they learn it by copying great writing, word by...
By Carolyn Martin, CHEC Director of Government Relations The State Wants Your Data Does your family use any kind of state-funded programs for your young children — like state-funded child care or preschool? This legislative session a bill was...
By Shari McMinn It’s firecracker-hot July, a season some have termed “the dog days of summer.” Not only are dogs hot, tired, and panting, but parents and kids are probably also in a similar state! As a farm family for many years, July meant...
By guest author Robyn Van Eck I was a new mother, just beginning to learn about homeschooling, when an older friend told me about this old-fashioned method she used in her homeschool: copywork. The mere mention of the word awakened thoughts of...
By guest author Antoniette LaGrossa Research shows over 7% of students experience severe learning disabilities in math. Countless more struggle because of the way the language of math is spoken to them. You might as well be speaking Greek. My goal...
Freedom Isn't Free By Carolyn Martin, CHEC Director of Government Relations Freedom was bought at great cost to those who bravely sacrificed to obtain and sustain it. The thirteen colonies fought a war to achieve something no other people in the...
