Our journey through time with Susan Wise Bauer’s children’s history texts, The Story of the World, brought us to the…
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Wordplay Cafe
Wordplay Café by Michael Kline is a set of grammar and vocabulary lessons disguised as a book of games. Truth be…
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Things People Do
Do you remember elementary school social studies? I remember a few bits and pieces—my memories are of a little American…
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Master Writer Quotation Copybooks
I have fairly high standards for copywork. I like for it to be easy to use and cost effective. In addition,…
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Lessons in Manners for Copywork
Copywork should be easy. It should be related to the history lesson or pulled from the read-aloud selection. It can…
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Writer’s Inc and Write for College Writing Handbooks
The GreatSource Education Group, a Houghton Mifflin Company, has produced a variety of academically useful and reliable handbooks. Chief among…
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Easy Make & Learn Projects: Human Body
Several months ago a slim little volume caught my eye on the clearance rack at Half-Price Books. Sometimes, the clearance…
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Finding Educational Activities in the Most Unexpected Places
In the daily taking care of kiddos it is easy to forget something that is vital to the lives of our…
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First Language Lessons and Language Lessons for the Very Young 1: A Comparison
It is confession time. We used First Language Lessons this year for our language study. We also used Language Lessons…
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The Human Body by Seymour Simon
Prolific children’s non-fiction author, Seymour Simon has teamed with HarperCollins Publishers and the Smithsonian Institution to produce a series of…
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A Little Classical Teamwork: First Language Lessons and Writing with Ease
After publication of their classically-based homeschooling guide, The Well-Trained Mind, mother and daughter Jessie Wise and Susan Wise Bauer continued…
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About Animals Series by Cathryn Sill
On any given day a stranger stumbling unsuspecting into our home could—and should—expect to meet with any of a large…
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