Reading Animal Farm George Orwell's dystopian classic, with a ten-year-old. Terrible idea, or great idea?
History Choosing a world history curriculum: Curiosity Chronicles A look at the reasons we chose the Curiosity Chronicles curriculum, and how we're using it.
Curriculum Exploring the World through Story First impressions of Exploring the World through Story, a literature-based curriculum.
Writing Writing paragraphs, The Writing Revolution style In some ways, writing is a strength area for Wanda. In other ways, it's the area where she needs the most support.
Curriculum Free homeschool curriculum There are outstanding free educational materials available to homeschoolers, including many aligned to common core standards. I've collected a list.
Writing Creative writing How I support my daughter's creative writing (mainly by staying out of her way).
Science Using a lab notebook for science How we started writing in real lab notebooks for science lessons, starting with learning from real scientists about how they use their lab notebooks.
Free printables The Writing Revolution downloadable lessons I'm sharing all of the The Writing Revolution-style lessons I've created, using content from our various curricula. Maybe you can use them, too!
Free printables The Writing Revolution activity templates Free printable Google Docs templates you can use to create writing activities, à la The Writing Revolution.
Language arts The Writing Revolution I’ve mentioned before that I don’t really have Wanda do writing assignments. She writes—ooh de lally, she writes!—but on her own time, driven by her own creative ideas. Lots of stories, scripts, songs, and comics. (Oh how I wish she would let me share them with
