Homeschooling for His Glory

With an 11th grade and a 9th grader as my homeschool students now, writing has become one of those subjects that I am most anxious to get right. Up to 5th grade, because neither of my boys were big on writing, I had been very relaxed about teaching writing. Grammar, I emphasized, because I believe in having good foundations in grammar, but writing, I thought I could build up to it. Around that time (5th grade for my oldest), I came across a curriculum that I liked but it advances through the topics in a slow and gentle manner. Back then I wanted my boys to get the full benefit, so I started them at the very beginning of the curriculum series. That curriculum was a wonderful addition to our homeschool, but when my oldest reached 9th grade, I realized I needed to get where we are going faster. I also wanted outside evaluation and grading. Came in The Lantern English, Co. which name I had seen floating around on my Facebook homeschool groups and which had been recommended to me by a fri...

I have found writing to be a very difficult subject to teach. If you are like me and have been looking for the right curriculum for teaching Writing, I have a product for you to check out: Here to Help Learning.  As a member of the TOS Review team we were offered a one year membership to Here to Help Learning writing curriculum. Here to Help Learning is a multi-level writing curriculum for students grade 1-6. This program, put out by Beth Mora, a homeschool mom herself, was designed to help homeschoolers teach writing to their kids. The program is made up of videos, and worksheets for practice, that teach the writing process. That said, there is much more to Here to Help Learning! The program is made up of 2 levels, each made up in turn of 3 sets of 32 lessons.  Each set of lessons are called flights and are worth one year of writing instructions. The videos are taught by Beth herself, a lively, energetic and enthusiastic christian teacher. She really put the ext...