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At the request of several followers, I’ve started to pull together a comprehensive listing of the curriculum materials we used throughout our homeschooling. Over the years, we have purchased from a wide range of vendors but now most of it is available on Amazon. So, in the interest of ease, I’ve started a storefront. My [...]

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Interested in learning Russian?
If so, you may want to take a look at the following two sites:
Master Russian which offers daily lessons and Russian Language Lessons which offers self-paced lessons along with limited video.
And here’s a list of some free online resources for Russian: http://www.word2word.com/coursead.html#russian

One of the challenges we faced in homeschooling was learning to evaluate our child’s writing skills. Many of the rubrics we found were geared towards specific reading assignments and the evaluation methods seemed so subjective. In the end, we chose to focus on reading high quality literature and using that writing as a standard.
Just recently [...]

One of the keys to early college success is course selection. Many parents suggest their child audit the first class rather than take it for credit. I’m torn on that approach as knowing there is no grade may not make the class requirements as real to a young student.
Regardless [...]

In continuing my posts on early college initiatives, I wanted to share my thoughts on the admissions process for dual-enrolled students and cost considerations.
• Colleges often offer dual-enrollment programs to local high school students and homeschoolers. Most often these programs are targeted to students with 11th grade standing and at least age 16. [...]

If I were to create a FAQ for those homeschooling through high school, one of the top five questions I’d address would be, “But what about college and a transcript?”
In general, creating a transcript is far simpler than I’d anticipated. The transcript is a one page, formal document that provides the students [...]

In continuing my posts on early college initiatives, I wanted to share my thoughts on the admissions process for dual-enrolled students and cost considerations.
• Colleges often offer dual-enrollment programs to local high school students and homeschoolers. Most often these programs are targeted to students with 11th grade standing and at least [...]

The folks at GHF (Gifted Homeschoolers Forum) recently posted an article I wrote detailing considerations in early college attendance. Since a good portion of this blog is dedicated to gifted resources and my ramblings on college attendance, in the days ahead, I will post excerpts from that article here.
As an intro, let [...]