In the early days of this blog I called Michiel (previously Lil Man) a “struggling” reader. I was worried because I was an early reader and his older brother had…
9 Apple Activities We Love for All Ages
After Apple-Picking My long two-pointed ladder’s sticking through a tree Toward heaven still, And there’s a barrel that I didn’t fill Beside it, and there may be two or three…
How you can use a Horizons Textbook for your Reading Program
I found several gems in our local homeschool curriculum cabinet! One homes’ junk is another’s treasure! One of which was Horizons: Learning to Read (1997-2002). Turns out it was a…
Learning on the Road
So the tide came in and we are still homeschooling. My Battle Buddy, the remarkable Honey bear, was sent ahead to our next duty station with 3 of our kids…
Would you, could You?
“Mom! There is a goat!” Its that book. The one we have three copies of. The one I deliberately tried to hide. For the most part the kids instinctively know…
Finally! No tears!
I can not tell you how frustrating it is to have a child who takes longer to grasp something than their siblings. Maybe it was just that I didn’t realize…