My fourth born is my Renaissance man. Artist. Junk hunter. Baseball Pitcher. Cook. Downhill ski jumper. Bird watcher. Coin collector. Fisher...

  My fourth born had an extraordinary 9th-grade year! In the past nine months, he was hand-picked by a baseball coach to pitch for the local...

As the last born of the family, my youngest has the advantage of a relaxed homeschool mom. I've experienced more than my share of both h...

According to the Pew Research Center , the number of kids who are reading just for fun is at the lowest it's been since 1984. Kids aren...

Like me, my middle son is a word nerd. He likes to read. He likes to write. So, when it came time to create a curriculum list for him, I nat...

This summer found my son hosting a pop-up pottery shop every few weeks; building a metal forge; fashioning numerous metal knives, hatchets, ...

For the first time in over thirteen years, I will not be teaching anyone phonics. My youngest has officially moved from learning-to-read to ...

"Narrating is an art, like poetry-making or painting, because it is there in every child's mind, waiting to be discovered, and...

You want your child to become a good writer? Then you have to start with good writing.  You have to start with copywork. Up until...

The thought of poetry use to make my boys cringe. Verse seemed too fluffy...too girly...too fancy for their liking. But besides being...

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...

taciturn |ˈtasiˌtərn| adjective (of a person) reserved or uncommunicative in speech; saying little. If you would've asked...

With mommas diligently planning curriculum choices for next year, my inbox has been jammed with questions regarding MY particular curri...

Like most kinesthetic learners, my eldest sone struggles at times to retain some of the basic foundations of rules-based subjects like langu...

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