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I'm a huge reader, or was, these day's I'm an author as my day job and don't have much time to read books, as I spend more spare time on BYC or with my animals/video games.. I've never read the classics, and I usually have both a dictionary, and a thesaurus open to help me make sure I use a...

if your kids are reading other things, including history books, I wouldn't push the "you HAVE to read classics that all other kids are reading." I've never read the classics. and I have no interest in it. My oldest likes the classics, so he has them on his book shelf.

When I was in college about 10 years ago, almost all of my classes were online submission for homework, or whatever else. I did have to take entrance exam's by hand though.

We are required to do an intent to homeschool form in our local area, but it's not "required" until 3rd grade. I'm going to give kindergarten a shot with my youngest, and see how she does. She's really social, so I may end up putting her in public school, depending on how she does. Her toddler...

When we homeschooled in Nevada, we just had to keep the books from the year before, to prove work done. My kids hate work books, but i've been in such a habit of using it to prove their moving forward since the books are easy to fill out and as long as they get 90% of the answers right for their...

This is what works best for my kids too. I make them do some work sheets in books, for "proof of work" in case I ever need to show that I am in fact, teaching them stuff. While in texas I legally don't have too - I started in WA state, where state testing and tracking work was mandatory.

I should add- I'm also a "lazy" homeschooler. They get maybe 1- 1 1/2 hours per day of book work, school work that's "real" school work. The rest of the day they are doing chores, watching TV, playing games, and doing whatever they want. I'm a firm believer that kids should be kids. We...

My oldest is special needs, with low muscle tone in his hands. It physically hurts his hand to write for any length of time. It's'n ot the assignment, it's the actual writing. my 5 year old CAN write, but she's high energy and sitting still is hard for her. so we do 1 tracing/practice writing...

We teach Spanish, Sign language, piano, I don't bother with cursive. My kids hate writing as it is, my oldest can read it. I do teach them to READ cursive, but forcing them to spend extra time printing... I basically teach them to sign their name, and then print neatly, once they can read/write...

I'm a computer geek, and being autistic, I struggle with penmenship and writing, due to low muscle tone in my hands. I have horrible memories being forced to learn cursive in school... so I decided not to put my kids through it, especially since it's a lost/dying art, as everything is electronic...

I don't bother to teach cursive anymore. Most schools stopped doing it.