This week, the Virtual Curriculum Fair is focusing on the arts. In our family, we’re not very artistic .. no one plays an instrument or paints or sings or anything like that. I am convinced that artistic ability comes naturally to a person and can’t be “taught into them” no matter how hard a teacher [...]

This week’s Virtual Curriculum Fair theme includes two of my favorite subjects: Exploring Our World: Social Studies and more Science. (Science was also included in last week’s theme, Discovering Patterns, but I chose to focus on math.) For both of these subjects, social studies (which I consider to include history, cultures, and geography) and science, we [...]

In my mind, learning to read is the most important thing a person needs to learn. Once someone can read well, he can find books to learn anything else in the entire world – history, mathematics, politics, science … everything. I feel very fortunate to like reading myself and that my husband likes to read also. [...]