Katie's Daily Life - Homeschooling, Care - Giving, and Reviewing

For the past few weeks AJ and I have been reviewing a fun product called Music & Creativity – Foundation Course. It is a free online program from Simply Music.
I can play a few simple songs on the piano that I learned as a kid, but I never took any lessons. AJ did take lessons for about six months, but that was quite a while ago. She taught herself a few songs. But overall both of us have very little musical...

AJ still struggles with some skills in both reading and writing. While she has grown leaps and bounds over the last few years, she is not quite on grade level. Because of that, she is a slower reader and sometimes takes longer with writing assignments...

Throughout our homeschooling years the hardest subject for me to teach and stay on track with has almost always been history. We have tried textbooks, but found them boring. We tried unit studies but often found ourselves taking too long on each topic...

AJ’s favorite subject has almost always been science. But she hates reading dull textbooks. She likes to learn by doing, watching, and investigating. Over the years we have learned that one way she learns the best is by using unit studies. By taking...