A few years ago, we tried out Jenny Phillip’s Good and Beautiful language arts curriculum. I was thrilled to give it a try, and I even came up with a way to keep it organized since I used the downloaded version. I was disappointed that it wasn’t going fit for our family. I thought the all-in-one curriculum would help us reach our language arts goals, but my daughters didn’t find it enjoyable and honestly, it was just too much for me to adjust to make it enjoyable for them.

I thought we had moved passed the stage of direct instruction in reading, but as we approach high school, I have come to realize that direct reading instruction should be revisited in middle school.

Next school year, we’ll try distance learning for the first time.

I know homeschool moms get giddy about the new books and materials, but it is really important for our children to get just as giddy. 

Even though we use more curriculum in our homeschool, I still find it valuable to enhance our learning environment with other activities, methods, and resources.  This allows us to keep the variety in our homeschool that we all need. 

My daughters have been on the road to independent learning since their younger days when they first expressed their independence by selecting which clothes and shoes they would wear.