Hopefully last week I was able to challenge you to reconsider your preferences. Are your preferences either for Algebra or Geometry based in truth or based in how each subject was presented? We saw that how Geometry is presented impacts how we feel about it. So, what are our preferences and what does it matter […]
I realized this week that I’ve been teaching with Scio Academy students for 6 years. That’s a good long haul. While I’ve been homeschooling for more than 15 years, I started this Scio journey when my oldest son entered pre algebra. He has since graduated and I’m still learning how to lead my children into
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What would I see if I was a fly on the wall of your homeschool? When my children were younger I used to wish that my husband could see what I did all day. I felt that only then would he truly understand how difficult my days could be. Now that my husband works from
Do what you love and you’ll never work a day in your life. That’s how the idiom goes. This seems to be the career goal of every person in my generation. While the motivating factor for this saying may bring us to a place of finding work we love, it also ignores a very real
My children are currently taking a semester long poetry course. In this course they are exploring the different types of poems, the history of these types, and practicing the types. I remember in high school having a literature course which spent a few weeks exploring poetry. I hated it. I didn’t understand how to write
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