Welcome to our monthly Spotlight on Five!     You Can Homeschool Your Child with Special Needs  Judi Munday, M.A.; M.Ed. Special Needs Educational Consultant In recent years, more families choose to teach their children with special needs at home. Homeschooling can ensure an appropriate education, because one-size-fits-all public instruction has left more children behind. Thanks

Welcome to our monthly Spotlight on Five!    Do-It-Yourself Language Immersion Recently I spent some time with a European woman who spoke three languages fluently. She made the comment that you could study a language indefinitely, but you’d never truly know it until you actively used it. That ideal situation is rarely available to most

Welcome to our monthly Spotlight on Five!  Using Apps in the Homeschool I was recently visiting a friend, when her two-year-old-daughter walked over, picked up her mom’s smart phone, opened an app, and began playing a game designed to help children her age learn their letters and numbers. No one batted an eye; it was

Welcome to our monthly Spotlight on Five!  Writing How I Rescued our Homeschool Writing Class Resistance to writing cropped up about six years into our homeschooling odyssey. At first, I thought it was a minor glitch. My oldest son had just finished an impressive report on Mexico and loved to write inventive stories as well,

Welcome to our monthly Spotlight on Five!  Literature No new curriculum?  Were my parents joking? Do school without schoolbooks? It was 1980 and my parents were on staff at Youth With a Mission (YWAM) in Austria. The year before, I had studied with other American children. That year I was the only English-speaking child. “You