by Spencer Mason | Jan 6, 2016 | Fall 2015, GREENHOUSE
6 Jan 2016 Self-doubt swam through my mind as I climbed the steps to the workout floor of my local fitness center. Would I be able to handle this? Could I do it? Would I throw up? After spending the summer dealing with an ankle injury, surgery to fix it and then...
by Spencer Mason | Dec 30, 2015 | Fall 2015, GREENHOUSE
30 Dec 2015 I want to point you to some of the most amazing online sources of support for your homeschool, but first, I want to tell you why these resources are free. The A2K movement (i.e. access to knowledge) is a global social justice movement that argues in the...
by Spencer Mason | Dec 23, 2015 | Fall 2015, GREENHOUSE
23 Dec 2015 In 1999, we made the single best decision of our homeschooling experience. We decided to get involved in competitive speech and debate. With an open slot in my schedule at the NCHE conference and on a whim, I walked into Teresa Moon’s workshop on...
by Spencer Mason | Dec 16, 2015 | Fall 2015, GREENHOUSE
Fall 2016/Debbie Mason Because I love math (and majored in it), it was my favorite subject to teach. Now that all my kids are grown and my homeschooling days have passed, I really miss teaching math, especially algebra. One of the reasons that I chose to homeschool...
by Spencer Mason | Dec 9, 2015 | Fall 2015, GREENHOUSE
9 Dec 2015 It is probably not hyperbole to say that there is one thing that has transformed our homeschool in the past year. A simple 30-45 minutes each day revolutionizes our perspective. It provides the framework for my ultimate goal in education: raising people who...
by Spencer Mason | Dec 2, 2015 | Fall 2015, GREENHOUSE
2 Dec 2015 In recent years, homeschoolers have been receiving solicitations from a variety of online school programs. There are a number of online homeschools such as A Beka Academy, K12 Homeschool, Liberty University Online Academy and Keystone School Online. In...