When I was a kid, at the beginning of every homeschool year, my mom would buy several spiral-bound lesson planning notebooks. She would spread all our textbooks out in front of her on the kitchen table, and she would meticulously handwrite all our assignments and lesson plans into her blank notebooks. It took hours. Now you don’t have […]
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Tour These Homeschool Spaces
Whether your kids work at the kitchen table or in a dedicated homeschool space, you’re probably always looking for creative ways to stay organized. Here are some of our favorite homeschool room designs, ideas, and hacks from Christian homeschool mom bloggers. Mandy from Biblical Homemaking takes organization and design to a new level with her creative […]
How to Create Your Own Grading Rubric for High School (Printable)
Grading a high school writing project can be more than a little confusing. Outside of simple grammar problems, there are a lot of different things to look for in an essay. A grading rubric is an invaluable assessment tool that gives you objective standards to assess your child’s writing. Teacher’s editions for BJU Press writing […]
Why Is Learning a Foreign Language Important?
Unless you’re fluent in a foreign language or studied one in college, teaching a foreign language may be a bit of a daunting task. You might be wondering if it’s really worth it. Here are some preliminary questions to consider as you think about teaching your child a foreign language. Why should my child learn […]
A Look Inside Algebra 2
If you’re like me, you like to get a good look at a product before you buy it and certainly before you trust it to help educate your children. To make that easier for you, we recently filmed a video in which I review some of the features of the latest edition of our Algebra 2 […]
What’s the Best Thanksgiving Harvest?
All right, we admit it. For most of us, the bounty of the harvest we celebrate in November comes from the grocery store. The Pilgrims would never recognize our “harvest”—canned, prepackaged, pasteurized, and processed—as bearing any resemblance to theirs. Not long before their harvest made it onto the table, it was either still growing or […]
Writing and Grammar—Two Halves of One Whole
For a busy parent, with everything that has to be completed in one homeschool day, teaching writing and grammar is a lot of work. It might seem to make more sense for you to handle these two related subjects as separate classes, or to spend one semester on grammar and the next on writing. So why does […]