We start school after chores and breakfast, usually around 10am. We are sort of cobbling together quite a few things right now. This has been difficult for me. I have always used Sonlight Curriculum. I like having a binder to give me a clear layout for the year, day by day break downs and…
We are working on getting four kids in colleges next year. You can believe that we are searching every avenue for earning college funds. After pouring over hundreds of articles and websites I am seeing a pattern on places where there is the highest amount of scholarship money available to students. STEM is the hot…
STEM is a hot subject in education for all of the right reasons and colleges are rewarding students who have STEM credits on their transcript. We are putting Think Like an Engineer; the course from Innovators Tribe, on our transcript for .25 credit hours after we finish our review period. The best part is that both…
The first seven years of homeschooling were our training years. We worked on kindness, sharing and ownership, self discipline, and obedience more often than we worked on letters and numbers. We trained our kids with long term goals in mind. When we saw areas that were frustrations or skills we needed, we set up ways to work on them.
Who else hates Leveled Reader books? I am loving The Magic Stories (Allsaid & Dunn, LLC, publishers of The Reading Game and authors of the Wordly Wise series) for two reasons: first, the list of The Naughty 40 (words) to prep before the story and secondly, the squeal of delight when I gave my daughter…
Remember the Little Pumpkin Tracks I shared about from Let the Little Children Come? We were also shipped their wonderful Gospel Tracks and Evangelism Tools Sampler Pack for children to review. My kids all claimed something for their own. The little prizes made me nostalgic for my first Sunday school days many years ago. Why…
My upper elementary kids are ready to start a Bible study of their own. We had the chance to review Weave Your Word in Me — Part 1 from Kid Niche Christian Books and have found a solid introduction to reading and studying God’s word for themselves. A Guided Study Creates Consistency I have…
This week I have crossed two posts where parents were asking about their child’s pencil grip and how to a correct problems. It was fortunate that I was just wrapping up my review for The Pencil Grip, Inc. of The 3 Step Pencil Grip Training Kit and The Ultra Safe Safety Scissors, so I was able…
Living in the digital age is difficult; kids are savvy tech users and won’t use a poorly made app for very long. I appreciate Reading Eggs ability to capture my daughter’s interest in a way no other online learning app has. She is jumping into elementary reading and playing after her “school” is done. I…
It is almost winter, the time when a lot of us homeschoolers decide that the literature curriculum we ordered this summer isn’t working with our student. Writing with Sharon Watson has a series that just might be what you are looking for; it’s called Illuminating Literature: Characters in Crisis and is may just be the…
Do you remember listening to books on cassette tape when you were younger? Brinkman Adventures bring you the excitement of those story adventures without having to wait for a “ding” to turn the page. If you were turning pages I am pretty sure you would not be able to keep up with the fast paced action…
Mondays are hard, like, everyone has a lost book or binder and wants to know where I put it, hard. Thank goodness I can use our Family Membership to have the kids log on and begin CTCMath every day including crazy Monday mornings. We can start the day with a quick lesson; the videos are usually…
Slanted, sloping, lifting off the page? Stop rewriting pages of work and get to the root with real help for your child’s writing.
Have your ever wished you could pull up an example of a concept you are working on with your child and print it for them? That is exactly what I have been doing over the last month with my Individual Membership to Super Teacher Worksheets. When do you run into the need for a…
As a leader of an elementary after school program and a mother of young kids, I was so glad to get to review a special Halloween Tract that could also contain a little treat. The set of 20, 3D pumpkin tracts from Let the Little Children Come answers the greatest question of the season in…