Team Gray!

When did I shift focus from teaching to getting through the curriculum? I ‘got it’ this winter, when I decided to slow down in teaching the children. They didn’t need to cover 4 subjects a day. Two was sufficient, I was sure. With 3 children in 3 different grades, and 4 subjects a day, something [...]

Thirteen years ago, when I met my first homeschooling family, I only had two children. My oldest had just started school, and she’d learned to read before she went to school. The homeschool mother I’d just met pointed out to me that I’d taught my daughter to read. That assertion stuck with me, even though [...]

Kindergartners and First Graders have a lot of coloring to do. I remember when Xay was that age. Those coloring pages just grated on his nerves. He begged off as many crayon assignments as he possibly could. Imani and Joy loved coloring, so they didn’t have the same objections to the Kindergarten and First Grade [...]