PARENT COMMENTS
“Combining your webinar writing class into our homeschooling journey ranks as one of – if not THE – best decisions we’ve made concerning our kids’ education. You have crafted one of the highest quality classes I have ever seen! My kids LOVE YOU!”
Samantha
“My daughter learned so much that helped her in her college classes, especially her English class. It was a valuable investment in her future!”
Kris
“Thank you, Ms. B. for all of your hard work! My daughter has learned so much from you over the last three years. It has been such a blessing!”
Vickie
“I am so delighted with the progress that my daughter has been making. She has also learned much about technology, thanks to your class! You are brilliant!”
Michelle
“You are fantastic! My boys love writing because of your wonderful gift of teaching well with humor and fun! We sure thank God for you. Thank you very much for all you do! You teach so well and make it fun! We really appreciate you!”
Linda
“We really, really appreciate the consistency of Writing Foundations, all your hard work, and the joy it has brought our daughter.”
Annie
“You’re awesome! Just want you to know how very much we love Ms. B in this house. All the children await their 5th grade year when they can start instruction with you! My favorite part is that I don’t have to drive anyone anywhere. The hours and hours in the car each week driving to classes really take a toll on me and our entire family dynamic. May God continue to bless you and Miss Z in this service to home educating families!”
Heather
“[My son] loved your class this morning – it was so good to hear him laugh during his lessons (he relates not only “writing” but the whole word “school” with “misery” – something I’m trying to change, and your class was just what we needed!). The parts I was able to sit in on made my day – thank you for making learning fun! Both boys love your classes – so much so they have become loquacious about all the cool things they are learning (that Mr. Fuddy Duddy is such a pernicious troublemaker!). We are having fun using the WOW words whenever we can! What a blessing you both are! So very thankful God brought you into our lives!”
Tonya
“I wanted to thank you and Miss Zoe for sending my daughter her sticker. She held the envelope with excitement and said, ‘Mama, Miss B. and Miss Zoe touched this envelope. I will never throw it away; plus it’s probably worth millions on eBay.’ Pretty cool when a student thinks you are rockstars, and I am sure she is not the only one. Thank you both for your constant support and patience. This class has been a huge blessing to both of us.”
Alicia
“I just wanted to follow up with you in regard to my son’s first PSEO term paper. As difficult as it was for me as a homeschool parent, I stayed out of the writing process totally. Yes, I trusted his training with you, but still I was nervous. After reading his professor’s comments on his 50 out of 50 score, I just HAD to shoot you a proud mama email! The funny thing is, of my three children, he is the least naturally inclined in writing and reading skills. What a surprising delight to see him nail this college term paper! Thank you! He could never have done it without your time, sweat, and tears!”
JH
“Thank you for teaching our son. His writing skills improved several notches in your class.”
Mary
“Thank you for offering writing classes online. All of my boys have benefited from your teaching, plus their mother has advanced in her writing skills too. Overall, it has been a blessing. Unfortunately, writing does not bring [my son] joy, but he definitely has gained the tools to tackle written assignments.”
MC
“I just have to say the kids have absolutely enjoyed your class and teaching style.”
Cory
“You crack me up! I simply love how you make class so fun with your hats, your videos, your jokes and the way you use stuffed animals etc to “act out” stuff. My son does not realize that most classes are not this fun!”
Julie
“I just can’t get over what you do for these kids as a teacher. You motivate them by finding creative ways to make writing fun. Both my boys have learned so much from you, and I’ve been so pleased with their writing progress! Thank you so much!”
Bridgit
“My son is doing very well in his classes and feels very confident in his writing skills, and I thank you for that! We are very thankful for your class and appreciate your time, expertise, and energy!”
Shari
“I wanted to take a moment to thank both of you for providing the excellent learning opportunities for my daughters. My oldest continues to excel. Her younger sister started off at a relatively weaker foundation. Her writing skills (and language arts in general) have improved tremendously, and it has become more natural for her only after a few months.”
SMA
LEVEL HALF COMMENTS
“The best thing about this class has been Ms. B and Ms. Zoe’s encouragement and teaching
style. Before, I hadn’t been a good writer, in fact, I was quite bad at it. With Ms. B and Ms. Zoe’s teaching, I’ve been able to become a better writer.”
C.O.
“I liked Ms. B and Ms. Zoe best! I love the hats! I enjoyed the GWO’s, learning how to edit has been helpful and I am able to catch errors when I am writing and reading. Thank you for all of your help!”
Jasiah
“I loved everything about this class! The songs, teachers, and classmates… I will always cherish the things I have learned this year in Writing Foundations! Thank you Ms. B. and Miss Zoe!”
Megan
“I liked that this class was early in the morning so I could watch it in my bed.”
Levi
“My favorite parts of this class were earning prize points, the Super Short Stories, making the video, and receiving the prizes. Thank you soooooooooooo much Ms. B. and Miss Zoe! I have had a splendiferous year in Writing Foundations Level Half. My writing skills have tremendously improved since the beginning of the school year.”
Magdalene
“I love how Ms. B and Ms. Zoe always show up to class with crazy hats, smiles on their faces, and a good attitude. I really think that is a good way to teach. Thank you so so very much for an amazing year. I will miss both of you guys, and I can’t wait to face Mr. Fuddy Duddy in a harder challenge next year!”
Kyler
“I liked the GWO games and the videos best. I also liked the essays and super short stories. Thank you for all of the fun jokes, entertaining us, and all your hard work on the class.”
Sarah
“I liked making Super Short Essays and Super Short Stories best.”
Ayden
“The fellowship, the super short stories, and Ms. B’s hats are what I liked best. YOU GUYS ARE SPECTACULAR! GOD BLESS YOU!”
John
“Making my video, winning WOWZA-PALOOZA, and learning alliteration are what I liked best.”
Abbey
“I really enjoyed my year with you, and I learned a lot. I have tried a writing class at my homeschool co-op, and I did not enjoy it or learn as much as I did here. I also think my teachers are marvelous.”
VK
LEVEL ONE COMMENTS
“I liked Ms. B’s funny hats best! I also liked learning how to use and understand grammar rules, having a set date that things needed to be done, and being able to text Ms. Z or Ms. B when I was having problems with my computer. Ms. B and Ms. Z are the best writing and grammar teachers I have ever had. Ms. B makes it easy to understand what she wants us to learn, and she is very funny and exciting to listen to. Ms. Z’s GWO’s really helped me understand grammar. It is always fun to hear Ms. Z’s commentary during the lessons! I wish I had started Writing Foundations earlier! THIS YEAR, WRITING WAS AMONG MY FAVORITE SUBJECTS! Thank You!”
Amber
“I liked how this class is able to turn something most people view as quite boring and tedious into something enjoyable. I have taken a few writing classes [in the last few years], and none of the curriculum or teachers compare to Mrs. B and Ms. Zoe.”
Katie
“Ms. B’s spontaneous humor takes the boredom and drudgery out of writing for those of us who are not particularly fond of it.”
Samantha
“Throughout this splendiferous year in Writing Foundations, I have blossomed into a talented and excited writer who enjoys writing powerful papers!”
Kayla
“I really enjoyed being able to interact with other people while learning how to write. I also enjoyed learning how to write using exciting games and writing assignments. Thanks for the wonderful year in Writing Foundations!”
Jane
“I just wanted to thank you because yesterday I had a skills and knowledge test, and I got 30th place for writing! There were 200 people, and 30th place was a gold medal. It was surprising because I was against a ton of 7th and 8th graders. I wrote a research paper about altruism. I would have never been able to before Writing Foundations!”
Fiona
“I liked that I could learn ways to make my writing more interesting by doing technique practices, and that I had the opportunity to learn comma rules from the GGUG by doing GWOs. I also liked Ms. B reading and jocosely acting out my super short story about the bear going fishing in a boat with a cute stuffed animal bear.”
Jonah
“I liked the chat box so we could ask questions and talk. Thank you!”
Erin
“English is one of my least favorite subjects, and Miss B and Miss Z almost always made class fun. I feel like all the assignments I get have a purpose, so there is nothing I personally would like to cut out. Miss B and Miss Z, thank you so much for a great year!”
Dana
“Ms. B and Ms. Zoe are amazing teachers!”
Brigitte
“I learned a great deal and I want to thank guys for being great teachers.”
Aiden
“My favorite part of class was probably the WOWza Palooooza. It was extremely enjoyable! I would like to say thank you for such an incredible year in Writing Foundations. You have benefited me as an overall student, and I am extremely grateful for you and Ms. Z. I love your class so much, and I wouldn’t trade a second of it for anything else in the whole wide world! I’m so excited for class next year, and I think that the summer will be extremely dull without you.”
Eleanor
“I liked the super short essays the best because I got to write about real life experiences, and that is my favorite type of writing. Thank you for such a wonderful year!”
Hannah
“This class was engaging and funny.”
Preston
“I liked the WOW PALOOZA best! Thanks for a sublime year Ms.B and Miss Zoe! See you next year!”
Giselle
“I liked the Veggie Tales part best. Thank you!”
Caren
“I liked the individual activities, like the timed essay, coming up with sentences by ourselves, and really just having a place to interact with people at the end of the day.”
Prahalad
“I liked the way that Handout City helped so much in our assignments.”
Kimbel
LEVEL TWO COMMENTS
“I liked how involved I felt in actively learning and not just sitting and watching a class. Thanks very much for keeping the class involved and for growing my writing skills immensely.”
Micah
“I liked the sense of community within the webinars. Without that community, Writing Foundations would be as boring as any other class. Although, Ms. B’s hats are pretty darn splendiferous.”
Noah
“Without Ms. B., I would have never known where to start.”
T.M.
“My love for writing has only increased with the astounding help from Ms. B.”
Maria
“The Flashbacks are awesome and are now my new favorite concept. Also, persuasive essays and the note-taking were fun too.”
Megan
“The best thing that I liked about this class is the fact that learning how to write can actually be fun. Ms. B and Miss Zoe have made it extremely enjoyable while teaching me important skills. This class is the perfect balance of fun and work, but even the work is fun. Thank you so much for sharing your skills with me this year. I have learned so much and have enjoyed every class time.”
Alana
“I like the handouts that you use to teach class. They provide information that I need to complete my assignments. Also, the handouts give me a refresher of what we talked about in class. Thank you for the responses to my questions which I received this year. You are so jocund and wondrous teachers.”
Micah
“Thank you so much for a great year! I learned so much that I can use in future classes. Anytime I had a question, y’all respond quickly so I could continue [my homework]. Have an amazing summer!”
Owen
“THANK YOU!! I appreciate you both working well together and always ensuring that class flows smoothly. The GIFs on the assignment pages are always so amusing and definitely noticeable! Thank you Ms. B for consistently bringing a smile to class and teaching us wonderful things. Thank you Miss Zoe for vanquishing all technical difficulties and carrying out so much behind the scenes that I do not know about. I hope that you both have a fantastic and enjoyable summer! Again, THANK YOU!!!”
S.T.
“Thank you for this wonderful year and I appreciate everything that you have done to advance my writing skills!”
August
“I liked the classes because they were very fun and engaging.”
Jonathan
“The part of the class that I liked best was how Ms. B was able to combine really hard, but useful, lessons with humor in a way that makes it an enjoyable class. This year was phenomenal, and I am going to miss you!”
Dominic
“Thank you for a wonderful year! Say hi to Mr. Fuddy Duddy for me!”
Ryan
“I loved learning how to write flashbacks. Thank you for a wonderful year.”
Stephen
“I LOVED doing the flashbacks! I also enjoyed the fun I had with my classmates. Thank you sooooo much!”
Allie
“I loved writing Flashbacks this year! Fusions were not my favorite, but they weren’t too bad. Thank you so much for all you do and for making writing an enjoyable experience!”
Maria
“My favorite part of class is probably the end of the year videos. I enjoy being able to put a voice to the face! I also like purchasing washi tape and tattoos for my self and siblings from the prize point trading post. I love logging into class and seeing which hat Ms.B. wears! One of my favorite writing assignments this year was the flashbacks. Fiction is much easier to write, and I probably wrote all of the flashbacks in under an hour. Thanks for the pulchritudinous year! I love participating in your class. Hope to see you guys in later years!”
Anna
“I liked the videos at the beginning of each class, especially the Veggie Tales videos! Thank you so much for teaching this year Ms. B and Ms. Zoe! I loved this class and I am very thankful for it since I have learned a ton.”
Sophia
“I adored writing the flashbacks! I just love writing real/fake stories. Thank You SO much for teaching me so many new skills! And a wonderful year! Thank you!!!”
Caroline
“I really liked the fun videos played at the beginning of class. I also liked the GWOs. Those greatly enhanced and trained my grammar and proofreading skills. Also, explaining the main writing assignment and giving an example helped a lot. Later while doing homework, I kinda knew how my homework was suppose to look. I liked the funny hats Ms. B wears!! Although I didn’t love the timed essays, I know they will help me greatly in the future. They were really good practice to know kinda how to write an essay in a short amount of time. I love the prize points trading post and the new stickers you made available this year!!”
MJP
“I liked watching the Ted-Talks explaining how to take notes and the jobs of commas and subordinate clauses.”
Amy
“Thank you for all the years of stupendous teaching.”
Nick
“As always, I have enjoyed studying the creative art of writing with both of you. Thank you for being truly excellent teachers! I do feel that I have improved tremendously as a writer as a result of participating in your class, especially the last two years.”
TS
“Ms. B and Ms. Zoe, thanks a million for teaching me the marvelous techniques learned this year. The GWO has helped me tremendously on the SAT, ACT, grammar writing section. Words can not describe how much I have grown this year. Thanks.”
Micah
“Thank you so much for the most marvelous and pulchritudinous year in Writing Foundations! I loved every class in the webinar. Thank you for everything!”
Isabelle
“Thank you so much for letting me share! For so long I have been so self conscious about sharing my writing. Writing has been something that I have loved for so long, but I have always been too scared to share. With this class, I have grown so much as a writer, and I have been way more comfortable, and I have been ok with sharing my writing! Thank you so much for all you do!”
Hannah
“Hey! I just got Grammarly on my computer, and I just got an update. It said I used 81% more interesting words than most Grammarly application users! Thanks for introducing so many “interesting words” in my life! You have helped my grammar and word usage so much! Thank you!”
Kayla
LEVEL THREE COMMENTS
“Thank you for all your help. Your class was very useful.”
Thomas
“You guys make writing exciting and adventurous. You have demonstrated that writing can be easy and fun! These past three years have been the absolute best! I have made so many memories, and enjoyed a laugh while doing school. Writing is undoubtedly my favorite class. I can’t wait to take these skills you have taught me and use them in PSEO. I pray that God would rain down His blessings on you and your family, and that the next semester would be full of joy and overflowing with peace. I am, and will forever be, thankful for Writing Foundations. THANK YOU!!!”
Grace
“Ms. B and Ms. Zoe, you guys are sublime people! Both of you have taught me countless things that I will never forget! I love you both so much! Thank you for everything!”
Teresa
“Thank you so much for all the work and lessons you have taught me! I will miss you both so much!”
Tara
“Overall, I had a super great time in your classes! Thank you for teaching and guiding me!”
Abbie
“Thank you so very much! You guys are the best teachers ever (besides my mom, of course!)”
Chloe
“I enjoyed that the format of this class was 100% online, and no matter the circumstance, we were still able to meet… this class has got its teaching methods down… it was my favorite out of the whole school year… Thanks for helping me with writing in a fun, engaging way!!!”
Lillian
SUMMER BOOST COMMENTS
“Thanks for a fantastic 4 weeks of writing practice. I’ve enjoyed seeing both of my boys practice and hone their writing skills. Thank you for instructing with clarity and enthusiasm!”
Elizabeth
“Thank you for helping me become a spectacular writer.”
Jacob
“Thank you so much for being great teachers!”
Chris
“Best class ever!”
James
“Thank you SO much for offering summer classes! I am extremely grateful that my daughter could experience your writing class and learn so much! We will be back!”
Katie
“Thank you so much for helping us out and accommodating our schedule when needed. We appreciated you and Zoe so much these last couple of months.”
Michele
WRITING BASICS COMMENTS
“We’re really enjoying this class, thank you for offering it. I LOVE having the flexibility in our schedule.”
Rebekah
“I wanted to let you know my daughter really enjoys your class. The positive feedback you have given her turns into excitement for the next assignment. I just wanted to say thank you; you are awesome!”
Alicia
FORMER STUDENTS FROM LONG AGO COMMENTS
“Hello, Ms. B! I am glad that you have continued Writing Foundations online. Without your help, countless students would ensnared by the grammatical traps of Mr. Fuddy Duddy and lost in the land of missing commas. Currently, I am in my sophomore year [in college] where I am studying biology and environmental science. Although I am not pursuing many English classes, I think of you whenever I write a paper or lab report, and I am eternally grateful for your writing instructions. Life would be much harder without Writing Foundations! Thank you for many years of writing wisdom!”
Alex
“Hi Ms. B! I graduated from your online classes a couple years ago. I just wanted to thank you so much for the tools you gave me during those years! I’m currently taking a PSEO composition course, and my professor loved my first essay and asked to use it as an example in future classes. If I didn’t take your classes, that opportunity would have never showed up, so I am forever grateful for you and your classes.”
Abby