Learning Curves Category

I have a journal where I first started seeking God for the children. I asked Him what I should do with each child that day. This was when I stopped using curriculum and tried to do delight-based learning, along with whatever I could glean from Charlotte Mason’s homeschooling book. I didn’t write in the journal [...]

Tuesdays are our first regular day of homeschool, because the High Schooler is home all day, working on his lessons and challenging his siblings to clean the house. (He is gone all day on Monday taking classes at a tutoring co-op). He was doing math at the same time as his three younger siblings this [...]

Last week I started this experiment with one of my daughters and her math. She has daily facts practice tests (fact sheets) with 25 problems to answer in 45 seconds. We’ve tried various things to study for the fact sheets. We go through the flash cards, timing ourselves to see how many she can answer [...]