Why analogies are important for us....

When you are homeschooling a high schooler, you need to get them ready for the college placement tests. NOW while I don't teach just to get my kids to pass a test, like what happens in the school system, I do believe in teaching in our own way the things that will appear on future important tests like SAT and ACT. Analogies are just one of those things...now while most online analogy games are geared for younger kiddos, I did find a couple of sites that had some for high school aged kiddos.(like the one linked above;)

Here is the defination of Analogy from dictionary.com
a·nal·o·gy

1.  a similarity between like features of two things, on which a comparison may be based: the analogy between the heart and a pump.
2.  similarity or comparability: I see no analogy between your problem and mine.
3.  Biology . an analogous relationship.
4.  Linguistics .
     a. the process by which words or phrases are created or re-formed according to existing patterns in the     language, as when shoon  was re-formed as shoes,  when -ize  is added to nouns like winter  to form verbs, or when a child says foots  for feet.
     b. a form resulting from such a process.
5.  Logic . a form of reasoning in which one thing is inferred to be similar to another thing in a certain respect, on the basis of the known similarity between the things in other respects.

So learning about analogies, is a great life lesson not only for those college placement tests but for my kiddos everyday life!  Little things like this add up into a well rounded homeschooler who is ready for life AND those pesky tests,LOL

What are some things that you really never thought of before to be important to teach your homeschoolers?

Never to early to start....

 Well summer is almost over and I seem to always be adding something to the list of things that I want to cover with the boys! My newest research project is mostly for Alex and wondering how to start giving him some practice for the SAT tests that he will take in a couple of years.Yes, we are starting to add some of that into the schedule for a couple of reasons.1) for him it takes longer for things to sink in and 2) it doesn't hurt to learn some of things now versus cramming at the last minute!!
I have already found some SAT games online and even some analogies games! I really like the analogies games because the one I found so far has them for every level! Which means that I can give some to Anthony to start with as well! I am wondering if there is enough time in the day to add all the things that I want the boys to learn?? Probably not, but we will get done with what we can!!