Homeschool Links

My first experience with Apologia Science was when I decided to try Exploring Creation with Zoology 3: Land Animals of the Sixth Day with my daughter instead of the same old science classes I’d been teaching for years.  Exploring Creation with Zoology 3 ended up being the best science class I have ever taught.  My daughter and I enjoyed it so much that I decided to… Read the rest of this post…

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Planning a literature course for high school is much simpler than it may seem.  Planning the course themselves rather than purchasing a plan allows parents the potential to involve the students in selecting literature for their own customized plan of study. The first thing and most important thing to consider is the goal or purpose for the course.  This makes it much easier to select the right books, and assign appropriate… Read the rest of this post…

Classical educators tend to have children study writing differently than most conventional educators.   In this approach, students study writing in a a way that is integrated into their other subjects and suited to the three developmental stages that classicists in Dorothy Sayers’ school of thought use to guide their teaching.

When these students study writing, the focus is on meaningful communication, as opposed to showcasing of styles and method. … Read the rest of this post…

Learning to read is often seen as a process that ends with fluent phonetic decoding skills, and only much later on, perhaps after a standardized test’s results have come back, do parents see the need of working on further improving reading skills.  Many students don’t get started off on the right track to reading fiction for understanding.  This is because there are several levels of understanding when it comes to… Read the rest of this post…

The time comes in almost every traditionally-schooled student’s life to take a standardized test.  Therefore, there is a need to prepare them, and many methods and resources are available for this.  Homeschooling sometimes feels like—and in some ways is—a world apart from mainstream schooling.  Homeschooling families can and do use these test preparation resources and hints with their students, but often it feels to the… Read the rest of this post…

More and more homeschooling families are discovering the beauty of the Latin language.  Studying it language is a challenging endeavor: Latin is a highly inflected language that requires students to think about language in a new way.  Latin is not, however, so ridiculously difficult that it is out of reach for normal students.  Also, parents can provide excellent preparation ahead of time for their students who will eventually Read the rest of this post…