It’s always amazing what the four-year-old can find in the iTunes App Store. This month, in the arithmetic/mathematics category, we have Rocket Math, by Dan Russell-Pinson. In Rocket Math, you build your own rockets from the ground up. As you build a rocket, you have to earn money for parts by doing math problems. There are over 90 colorful pieces and parts from which…
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Patriotic Holiday Resources
In honor of Memorial Day, we are sharing some learning resources, crafts, arts and more from around the web. Enjoy! Patriotic Fun – our own review author, Cindy, starts us out with learning centers at Our Journey Westward Flag Cake via Household Ways Memorial Day History from Veteran’s Affairs Memorial Day printables from About Homeschooling Patriotic Crafts for Memorial Day…
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The Creation Children’s Book
The Creation is a lovely hardback children’s book telling the story of Creation in the Bible. I suppose there are numerous children’s books on Creation out there but this book has something different… …each day of The Creation is illustrated by way of hand-appliqued quilt illustrations! Author Janice Green has done a fabulous job of retelling the account of Creation…
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Horizons Math
We have really struggled with math in our homeschool. I think that it is partly because math just isn’t our strongest subject. For a few of my children it is also from not learning certain concepts thoroughly in public school. Because of these things we have also struggled to find the right math curriculum. We have recently gone back to…
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Improving Thinking Skills with Mind Benders
We did a product review some time back and part of the suggested items for doing that review was Mind Benders. I had never heard of them but the curriculum said they were “highly recommended” and that they had actually tried removing them from the curriculum but received so many complaints that they put them back in! With that information I immediately had…
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Evan-Moor’s Building Spelling Skills – Grades 1 – 6
Evan-Moor Building Spelling Skills
Timez Attack Multiplication and More by Big Brainz
Big Brainz is giving away a deluxe version of Timez Attack multiplication and division, valued at $59.99, to one Curriculum Choice reader – don’t miss it at the end! We’ve enjoyed Timez Attack by the Big Brainz company in our homeschool for several years now. These fun, multiplication games were recommended to us by my friends and fellow homeschool moms….
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Journibles
I have been using a fabulous Bible study tool called Journibles, The 17:18 Series. I have used it as a springboard for really digging into a Bible book and studying it deeply. I wanted to share it here because I think that it could also work well for your high school students as part of their Bible study, and plan…
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Ka-Ching!
One of the things I love to use for our living math lessons is games. I don’t know about your children, but mine can pick up skills they never knew they had simply by playing a game. When I taught my eldest how to multiply one of the things I started with was this very simple game called Ka-Ching! Instead…
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Excellence in Literature: Reading and Writing Through the Classics (IEW)
Wondering what your student can do with all those wonderful writing skills they learn using IEW in the younger years? The IEW system is a complete writing system that homeschooling families can build on from year to year. If your family has worked through the Teaching Writing: Structure and Style course and your older student is now looking for…
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