As my kids each tiptoe towards the teen years, we spend less and less time learning as a group in order that they can each have more time ex...

She was stumped. It was a writer's slump, ya' might say. While working on a creating writing project, my daughter's word-...

Although I recognize that perhaps none of my five children will grow up to be the next C.S. Lewis or Beatrix Potter, I know that they a...

The other day in a moment of PLAN B, I tossed out my original pre-scheduled plan for our creative writing activity and decided, instea...

Although not all of my kids love to write, they ALL love to weave words into captivating stories.  This year, I hope to harness that f...

Although I have an entire year of creative writing prompts planned for our weekly creative writing time, every now and again, I like to...

Ahhh summertime! Books are packed away, worksheets are lost in a file folder somewhere, flashcards are forgotten. Learning is put aside for ...

Several years back, when Sweetie Pea was just a two-year-old tot, I was in a ladies' Bible study. One night we, women, were sharing s...

As is mentioned on The Unlikely Homeschool Curriculum page , Sweetie Pea has been working her way through BJU Press English 3 for her gr...