If you attended a public school or college, do you remember your school’s mascot? Was it a live animal like Stella the great horned owl for Temple University? Or perhaps the Nittany Lion of Penn State which represents the mountain lions that used to roam freely in Pennsylvania? Or maybe your school mascot represented a … Read more
Find out what colleges want from homeschoolers in this special guest post. Dive into testing, transcripts, and more!
Who loves back to school commercials? Even though our children don’t go back to school in the traditional sense, I love seeing the commercials advertising notebooks, pens, pencils, and more! Walking through the back to school aisles in the store can be so much fun. Brand new boxes of crayons, stacks of construction paper, fancy … Read more
Homeschooling is one of the best, yet most exhausting adventure you can have. Not only are you the teacher, but you are also the homemaker, mother, and probably 10 other occupational titles. What about summer learning? Should you homeschool year-round, catch up on academic skills that are lacking, learn a new skill in the summer, … Read more
I was all set to write a generic post about how you raise up independent learners and then I thought, wouldn’t it be better if I just told you what a typical day in the life of ninth grader is like? My ninth grader is a very independent learner. A Day in the life … Read more