Homeschool with Moxie
Check out these posts for everything you've ever wanted to know about how to homeschool! From curriculum options, schedules, electives, and best practices, you'll find actionable strategies, inspiration & encouragement. You can search by subject or grade level as well as read reviews of curriculum.
If anyone knows how to make a dollar go far, it’s a homeschool mom! Many of us are homeschooling on one income and we are pros at hunting down free homeschool resources. But what if the work could be done for you? What if you didn’t have to do a massive hunt each month? If this sounds like a big… Read More
My high schooler was able to give Easy Grammar Ultimate Series: Grade 11 from Easy Grammar Systems a try this fall as an easy-to-use grammar component to his English elective. Here’s how it worked for us. What you get with Easy Grammar Ultimate Series only takes 5-10 minutes a day enough instruction for 180 days teacher text has reproducible pages… Read More
Looking for high school writing curriculum for your homeschooled student? An opportunity to review the full package of College-Ready Writing Essentials™ by BetterRhetor came along at the start of my son’s 11th grade homeschool year, and it was perfect timing. Here’s how we used BetterRhetor and our recommendations. What’s in the Course The benefits of the College-Ready Writing Essentials™ course… Read More
My 6-year-old was excited to use 240 Essential Reading Skills for First Grade, one of the workbooks from Reading Eggs. She did complete kindergarten and when we tried this program, we hadn’t officially started first grade yet. So it was a great chance to see how Reading Eggs might work for us. About Reading Eggs Reading Eggs is a complete… Read More
As a homeschool mom and a piano teacher, I was excited to try out Music Appreciation Book 2: for the Middle Grades from Zeezok Publishing with my middle school son. Here’s an inside look and our complete Zeezok publishing review. About the curriculum Music Appreciation Book 2: for the Middle Grades included a student book with activity pages and 9… Read More
Wouldn’t you love to be a fly on the wall of other homeschool families to see just how they do it? How do they take their quirky house, with all its imperfections, and make it work for their homeschool? Now you can do just that! Take a look at our 3 finalists in the Amazing Homeschool Spaces contest and vote… Read More
Looking for 6th grade homeschool curriculum ideas? This is the fourth time we’ve homeschooled 6th grade in our family. Some things have stayed the same, and some choices have changed through the years. Here’s what our current 6th grader will be working on this year. This post contains affiliate links for your convenience. I will receive a commission if you… Read More
As kids all around the country prepare to return back to school, I want to take a moment to remind you of things they need in a classroom that your homeschool can do without. Ready to be encouraged? Here we go! This post contains affiliate links for your convenience. I will receive a commission if you purchase from these links…. Read More
My teen decided to read Britfield & the Lost Crown and was happy to report that it was an engaging book that he highly recommends to other teens. Here’s the inside scoop. Here’s an honest review from a teen for this adventure novel. About Britfield & the Lost Crown Britfield & the Lost Crown follows the adventures of Tom and… Read More
After homeschooling for over a decade with five children, I was thrilled to finally try out the Family Membership from CTC Math. I’ve heard so much about this program from other homeschool families, so our expectations were high. And this program did not disappoint! How Does CTCMath Work? CTCMath is an online program with every single level of K-12 math instruction… Read More
