Assessment Considerations

Assessment Considerations

While a homeschool assessment must be done every year for students of compulsory age, there are two main options to choose from: testing and portfolio review.  The portfolio review option was hard-won in 1994 to help special needs students and others for whom testing...
Why Am I Homeschooling?

Why Am I Homeschooling?

The New Year holiday is often a time of reflection.  What went well last year?  What changes are needed this coming year?  What New Year’s resolutions are in order? Homeschooling is no different.  We start thinking about how we’re doing – and what we’re doing....

Sighting in on Christmas

by David Richman I am sighting in on deer hunting week/camp as I write this.  Also, I am looking ahead and “sighting in” on Christmas, too.  Let me confess something that I feel a little guilty about – I like Thanksgiving better than Christmas.  Here...
What the Pilgrims Were Really Thankful For

What the Pilgrims Were Really Thankful For

When I was young, I was taught that the little band of Christians who landed at Plymouth Rock in 1620 had left England to flee religious persecution.  I learned later that these Christians had found religious freedom in Holland thirteen years earlier. Although the...