Four Year Cycle Utilizing Homeschool Connections with UNLIMITED ACCESS   If you follow a four-year cycle, such as that used with Story of Civilization by Phillip Campbell, you can use recorded, independent-learning courses with Homeschool Connections for your 5th through 12th grade curriculum. Here is a list of recorded courses through our Unlimited Access program […]

ANNOUNCING Homeschool Connections’ new four-year cycle for live, interactive courses … In response to requests from students and their parents, Homeschool Connections has organized a four-year cycle of coordinated courses for all students in your family, third through twelfth grade. This is so your entire family can learn about the same era at the same […]

I majored in applied mathematics in college, yet it wasn’t until I became a homeschooling mother that I discovered math in literature. I’d like to help you to also discover how you can introduce living books into your homeschool and take a break from the drill, drill, drill.

This article is an excerpt from the book Why Should I Learn This. To order click here: Paperback eBook   Why Should Christians Learn Tolkien?  Henry Russell, Ph.D.  J.R.R. Tolkien wrote to Father Robert Murray, SJ, “The Lord of the Rings is of course a fundamentally religious and Catholic work; unconsciously so at first, but consciously in […]

In the final analysis, the right reason for learning Shakespeare is to learn the right reason that Shakespeare teaches! 

I like to give high school students a reading journal or diary to record their favorite books. Not just my own teens, but the teens in the high school book club I've led for more than a decade. Even after they grow into adults and move out of their parents' houses, some continue to keep their journals up to date. It’s a great habit that encourages reading for enjoyment.