This listserv is for Roots and Shoots leaders who lead a homeschool or community group. Here you can share ideas on projects, service activities, fundraising, and general topics about your group.

This brain training site is where logic and thinking meet fun and games. These games feature lots of challenges that will make you forget you are getting a mental workout.

El Camino Real Bookstore publishes out-of-print Catholic treasures and preserves Catholic heritage by offering Catholic titles which taught our forefathers the unchanging truths of the Catholic faith.

Knowledge Quest offers historical outline maps and timelines designed for the interactive study of world history and geography.

Each family comes with its own dynamic – a beautifully complicated medley of philosophies and needs involving a family’s heritage or culture, parenting style, financial stability, spiritual or religious preference, communication, and of course, educational goals and background. It may not be the right choice for a family to homeschool. These reasons not to homeschool can give you some food for thought.

Seton Home Study School offers K-12 curriculum, textbooks, special needs counseling, testing services, and more.

Mary Ellen Carlise shares some creative ways to teach elementary math using items you can find around your home. The focus of this article is mathematics education through second grade.

Educators have many ways of defining and describing the way people process information including learning personalities, modalities, and styles. The simplest to understand and apply involves three categories: lookers, listeners, and movers. It is helpful for a teaching parent to know his own learning style as well as the preferred learning style of each child in the family for several reasons.

The striking contrast in the grandchildren of Abraham may not have been due to a difference in their temperaments, but to mistakes that were made in their upbringing.

Many adults shudder at the thought of their geometry education; theorems, proofs, and endless problems to work. Yet, geometry doesn't have to be a bore. There are so many ways to make it fun and applicable to real life. The possibilities are endless for elementary geometry lessons that students will not only learn from but will also get excited about!