Help Your Child Improve Writing Skills with Fortuigence

Sometimes you just want to abdicate the instruction of certain subjects in your homeschool. One area that seems to trouble me is writing. 

How do I adequately evaluate my child's writing?

Am I qualified to teach my daughter how to improve her writing skills? 

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Challenge A: Reflections and Tips

  

Now that our year in Challenge A is complete, I can reflect and write.

Readers have emailed lots of questions about Challenge A. I've had tons of thoughts swirling in my head about how I will do Challenge A differently when my son gets to that point. 

I want to share in the hope  it will help others - and to document the most exceptional year of our homeschool journey thus far.

Challenge A can be a shock to a child's (and a parent's) system. I cleared our schedule of anything that wasn't absolutely necessary so we could focus on having a productive school year. I knew going in that this year was going to require a lot of ME, the parent. 

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3 Ways to Foster Independence in the Middle Grades Homeschool Child

One of the biggest challenges that comes with homeschooling "big kids" is fostering independence.

A reader, commenting on last week's "Big Kids" post put it perfectly:

The biggest question for me right now is teaching independence. I'm trying to move away from the "I need to sit here while you do this work" mode. But of course I can't leap right to the "here's your pile of work, now sit down and get it done" mode either!

What steps did you/would you take to foster independence?

I don't claim to have all the answers, but I can share what we have been doing for the past two years with our middle grades child. 

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