Jumpstarting Your First Day Back of 2013

  Happy New Year!! It’s 2013! A new year full of promise and expectation. Of course, this may also bring something akin to dread. Have you ever heard these words? “School again? Do we have to?” Oh yeah, it is time to put away the holiday excitement and batten down the hatches for a long stretch … Read more

Get Help Teaching from More Than 25 Homeschool Experts!

     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

Spotlight on the Crew — Homeschooling and the Military Family

{This week’s Spotlight on the Crew article is brought to you from Michele, at  Family, Faith and Fridays.}   For the last 14 years we have been a homeschooling family.  In that time alone we have lived in Florida, New Mexico, Colorado, Alabama, North Dakota, Wyoming and now Virginia.  In 9 months we will be on the … Read more

Spotlight on the Crew — Homeschooling the Special Needs Child: Balancing Goals with Outcomes

{This week’s Spotlight on the Crew article is brought to you from Lori, at  Special Connection Homeschool.}   “What are we doing in the morning?”  That’s the question I hear every night from my daughter before she goes to bed.  I must explain that by that question she means, “what are we doing tomorrow?”  I know this … Read more

Spotlight on the Crew — How Homeschooling and Adoption Made Us Into a City

{This week’s Spotlight on the Crew article is brought to you from Susan, at Slightly Nerdy, Sometimes Cool.}   It was a one day only 50% off coupon sale at  the craft store.  I was so going to use that coupon to stock up on popsicle sticks, tacky glue, and googly eyes.  I am a woman after … Read more