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  Supercharge your Story How do animals supercharge their bodies? Stupendous survival strategies you call adaptations! How do you supercharge your writing? Stupendous strategies you can snag from this month’s books! High energy text can be extremely effective. Sometimes that energy just spills out as you write, but sometimes it is tougher to come by. Fortunately, a few fine-tuning exercises may be all you need to take your writing from fizzle to sizzle! Vivid Verbs Sure your characters could just eat something, but take a clue from Kate Messner and have them smash, zap, sting or devour. Right in her...

This week on Homeschool Highschool Podcast: How to be Ready for College, Interview with Dr. Rachael van der Merwe. How to be Ready for College, Interview with Dr. Rachael van der Merwe We are so excited this week to be chatting with a homeschool graduate, who is also the daughter of our fellow podcaster and friend, Meryl van der Merwe. (With that in mind, you should check out Homeschooling with Technology– you will be glad you did!) Dr. Rachael van der Merwe is a professor at a university in the Netherlands, where part of her teaching is helping young college...

As a homeschool mom, teaching math as the kids have gotten older has been a challenge. It’s not because I am not proficient - because I am. It’s because math is one of the subjects that takes actual steps and processes to teach it where your child actually understands. Basic math concepts are simple to teach and quite simple to understand, but as our kids grow older and the math becomes a bit more complicated - so does the teaching. I searched high and low for an online math program that was straight to point and also very valuable for myself...

Our son is in 8th grade and taking Algebra I for high school credit. He has always found math easy to understand. Our curriculum of choice was Math Mammoth since 2nd grade. We tried Singapore Math and found it too easy. Thunder, our cat, used to keep us company before he disappeared. Then we tried Right Start Math Level B and found it so great, we ordered Level C for the following year. Level C proved too weird for me to teach. I do not understand math in that way. So we had to ditch that and tried Alpha Omega...

This post contains affiliate links. For more information, please see my Terms of Use and Disclosure Policy page. Thank you.For many, the month of October means that they will be getting out their scary books to read but not so much for this homeschool mom anymore. At one time, I really enjoyed reading scary books like those written by popular, mainstream authors. Today, I find that I shy away