Blog Cruise – Dealing with family and friends that don't support your decision to homeschool

This week’s Blog Cruise topic can be a touchy one for some. Sometimes when we choose the road less traveled, others, even our own friends and family, like to voice their opinion about it. Sometimes that opinion can be negative and not so encouraging. This week’s question is, How do you respond to family or … Read more

Time4Learning Reviews

This article is in collaboration with Time4Learning. Last year many of the TOS Homeschool Crew members reviewed Time4Learning, a great online program that can either be used as your core homeschool curriculum or be used to supplement your existing program. My children loved it. We were thrilled that Time4Learning was one of the vendors this … Read more

My Access – Vantage Learning Reviews

This article is in collaboration with Vantage Learning. Writing is often a difficult subject for homeschool parents to teach. Uncertainty over how to grade their child’s writing, or a lack of confidence in their own writing abilities are often at the root of this difficulty. Vantage Learning has a solution — My Access! Home Edition. … Read more

Peterson Handwriting Reviews

This article is in collaboration with Peterson Handwriting. The first official review for this Crew year is Peterson Handwriting. Our Port Crew (which primarily reviews products for infants through upper elementary) was divided into three testing groups  the print writing, the cursive writing, and the PDF By Hand (which requires the Wacom Digital Tablet). Peterson … Read more

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