Ever have one of those days, or maybe a few in a row, when life just gets in the way? You have your day’s agenda all laid out & BOOM, life happens and your plans go out the window. Ever have that happen? Yeah, me too! Yesterday and today have been two such days when unexpected events, turned our usual routine, especially homeschool, upside down. Read the rest of this entry »

Looking for a fresh new way to approach highschool history? Here’s an idea – family genealogy! Have your kids trace your family back as far as you want to go in history. Not only will you cover history, you’ll learn some fascinating information about your family that can be passed on to future generations! Who knows, you may even discover a few “black sheep”

As you begin to put your family tree together, use it as the springboard for history. For each member or family group make pages on your computer to document such things as: Read the rest of this entry »

Today, Monday, December 3rd, is the day that The Homeschool Blogs Awards voting begins!

Naturally, I would love to have you vote for Homeschool Through Highschool, one of the nominees in the “Best New Homeschool Blog” category! (Just being nominated was quite a thrill!)

If you would like to cast your vote for me or any of the other blogs, you just click here or click on the picture to the left.

Thank you for all your support and encouragement and if there’s anything you’d like to see on Homeschool Through Highschool, just go to my About Me page and shoot me an email. I’d love to hear from you!

Pressing On,

Sue

I received the following story in an email several days ago and it deeply touched my heart. I pray that as you read it, it will touch yours as well. I don’t know who the author is and if anyone does, please let me know so I can give proper credit.

We were the only family with children in the restaurant. I sat Erik in a high chair and noticed all the other customers were quietly sitting and talking.

Suddenly, Erik squealed with glee and said, “Hi!” He pounded his fat baby hands on the high chair tray. His eyes crinkled in laughter and his mouth was bared in a toothless grin, as he wriggled and giggled with merriment.

I looked around and, with dismay, found the source of his merriment. Read the rest of this entry »

In graphic design, there’s a term called “white space”. Good design leaves plenty of room for white space in the margins and throughout the piece – space where there is nothing but paper showing through. White space is restful to the reader’s eye and evokes a non-busy, non-overwhelming feel to the publication. White space is an important design element that invites the reader to keep reading.

We need white space in our lives too. Read the rest of this entry »

You’ve done it! Your child has completed their home school highschool education and is ready to graduate. Wow! In some ways it seems like just yesterday when you began homeschooling and in other ways, it seems like a lifetime ago. But, nonetheless, the day is here & you want to give your high school grad a diploma in recognition of their accomplishment (and yours! ).

Very seldom do colleges or workplaces ask to see a diploma – most often, it’s the transcript that bears the greater weight & we’ll talk about transcripts in days to come. But for now, let’s look at some of the ways you can inexpensively or even freely produce the important-to-your-highschool-graduate diploma. Read the rest of this entry »

Using movies for a highschool literature course can be fun! Kathryn Stout has put together a wonderful course doing just that with her Movies As Literature.

We have used several of Kathryn’s Design-A-Study products (Science Scope and History Guides Plus) and have found her products to be novel in approach, interesting and all around wonderful resources.

Movies As Literature is a complete one year English course for highschool students. The course contains a complete teacher’s manual (with answer key) and student workbook. The student workbook portion may be purchased individually or copies may be made for use by other students within the same family. Read the rest of this entry »