Posts by Daffodil

Quote: Originally Posted by RCHOUDH  Hello,   In relation to summer homeschooling, I was just wondering at which time of day everyone tries to get the kids' studying out of the way? It's random,...

I have a success story!  I had unexplained fertility and eventually ended up trying IVF just before I turned 40.  I got pregnant on my first IVF attempt, then miscarried.  Tried it again just after turning 40, got...

I find Vermont a good place to homeschool.  State homeschooling requirements are more stringent here than in a lot of other states, but they aren't really that burdensome.  Standardized testing isn't required, which is...

I thought of another one: The Egypt Game.  A really good book, but with girl protagonists, one of whom is black.  (The fact that she's black is just barely mentioned; I don't think I even noticed it when I read the book as a...

Oh, I just thought of one.  Bud, Not Buddy is about a 10 year old black boy.  And The True Meaning of Smekday has a black girl protagonist.  But those are both a big jump from the Magic Tree House level.

It's disturbing to realize how few I can think of.  There's a beginning chapter book series by Alexander McCall Smith about an African boy named Akimbo.  (This is one of the books.)  Junie B. Jones has black and hispanic...

We're non-Christian, but not Pagan.  Christian homeschoolers seem to be scarce in my area, too.

For math, you could use the Singapore Math placement tests to get an idea what level she's at and what concepts might be covered in first or second grade.  My understanding is that Singapore Math is pretty much in line with Common...

Picture your average day now and imagine fitting in half an hour to an hour of reading aloud, math, handwriting, or reading instruction/practice at random times during the day.  That would probably be about what our average...

For at least the first couple of years of homeschooling you won't need to spend much time at all actively working with your DD.  An hour a day, maybe less, should be enough to teach her everything she would be learning at...