Now that the school year is in full swing, our family is doing more reading overall. I am definitely the one who reads the most all year long, but once the school year kicks in the kids have assigned reading so they finish more books as well. In addition to our personal book choices, there…

We’ve all been there. It’s time for book club and you need to find a list of book discussion questions for this month’s title so you start searching. It can be a struggle to sort through all of the potential questions, especially if you are trying to find the right ones to ask children. A…

Want to know the #1 interference to our school day? The one we have to work around every single week. The one that is rarely the exact same each week. The one that is so good for my teen, but so hard on my homeschool schedule. Teen shift work at Chickfila. Man. It makes each…

It was a pretty typical school week for the first part of the week. By Thursday night, we could feel the vacation vibe in the air because my parents were arriving on Friday. I gave up asking the kids to complete much school work on Friday or Monday while my parents were here. They did…

This was our first week “back to school” after our break and I wasn’t quite as prepared as I wanted to be. But like any other week that feels shaky, I rely on our routines and let the pieces fall into place as the week moves forward. (And I promise myself to get it together…

At some point, every child can use a little extra math fact practice, but flashcards are old fashion and boring. There are so many fun ways to practice math facts that make learning fun. After some time spent teaching math in the public school and then homeschooling my four kids, these are some of my…