This article is in collaboration with College Common Sense. College Common Sense is a program designed to help families understand the process for finding and obtaining financial aid for college. Developed by Denise Ames, a financial aid counselor at a university in Texas, College Common Sense is applicable to parents of students of any age. … Read more
Most of the time when favorite homeschool subjects are being discussed, someone is asking one of your students, “What’s your favorite subject?” In my house, the answer would be, “Anything but math!” But this week’s Blog Cruise is a fun one! We are asking members of the Crew which subjects are their favorites to teach! … Read more
Three years ago when I started homeschooling, one name kept coming up in conversation: Charlotte Mason. She was everywhere. Then I discovered she’d been dead for over 80 years, and I started to wonder what she had to do with twenty-first century homeschooling. So I started digging. I discovered her premise contained twenty basic principles, … Read more
Prepared lesson plans. Online content. More than 25 subjects, written for Preschool through High School. All ready at the click of a mouse. That is SchoolhouseTeachers.com, the lastest product brought to the homeschool community by The Old Schoolhouse® Magazine. Included in SchoolhouseTeachers.com are real live teachers for most every subject, providing lesson plans for students of … Read more
This article is in collaboration with Math911. Professor Martin Weissman has been teaching Mathematics for 50 years. Passionate about the subject, he desires to help students overcome their fear of Mathematics and to master it. In his years of teaching, he felt that students needed fewer explanatory textbooks and more illustrative examples to help them … Read more