After publication of their classically-based homeschooling guide, The Well-Trained Mind, mother and daughter Jessie Wise and Susan Wise Bauer continued their streak of parent-friendly curricula with a variety of texts, including Mrs. Wise’s First Language Lessons and, more recently, Dr. Bauer’s first installment in the series The Complete Writer, which is titled Writing with Ease: Strong Fundamentals. Both are on…
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Science Sleuths
Have we ever had fun with this Science Sleuths mini-unit! My children love a good mystery, so I knew this science-related study would be just up their alley. Written for grades 6-9, Science Sleuths includes three detailed cases for your children to solve based on clues and evidence that slowly trickle in over the course of a few days time….
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Apologia Science: Exploring Creation with General Science
Apologia’s Exploring Creation with General Science has been a perfect fit for our son, Nathanael, who’s in the eighth grade (age 13/14) this year. It is the first course of the Exploring Creation with… upper level Creation-based science curriculum series written by former University Professor, Dr. Jay Wile, especially for homeschool students. Here’s a description of the course from Apologia’s…
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Preschool Activities are as easy as 1, 2, 3
Preschool is all about keeping little hands busy and making the most out of little attention spans. For a small task it isn’t always so easy to accomplish without big plans. For my preschooler, I would spend quite a bit of time finding just the right projects and lessons to keep her interest. When given the opportunity to review 123…
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A Child’s Geography
Searching for geography curriculum has been a fruitless pursuit for me, so I dabbled in creating my own. We discussed earth being our home, looked at maps, and located places on the globe from our history and literature studies. That was enough, but I wanted to go more in depth. When I was introduced to A Child’s Geography, Explore His…
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Schoolhouse Rock Helps Learning Stick
Not everything has to become a formal lesson at our house, but I love being able to sneak in some learning with a helping of fun. I have seen in my own life that songs I have learned as a child I can still remember to this day. While this has many applications to homeschooling I only want to talk…
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Legends and Leagues
Most of you already know I’m a huge fan of a good book. Whenever I can use a book to kickstart a lesson, I jump at the chance. When I saw the book Legends & Leagues had a Workbook to go along with it, I couldn’t pass it up! Legends & Leagues or, Mr. Tardy Goes from Here to There…
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History Scribe Notebooking Pages Review
I like using notebooking as a form of narration in our Charlotte Mason styled homeschool. My preference is to use blank notebooking pages or to make our own, but I also enjoy History Scribe retail notebooking pages. Why do I like History Scribe? My daughter is creative and loves to sketch. If I give her a notebooking page with graphics…
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A Journey Through Learning
A Journey Through Learning is a fairly new lapbook company to me. This year, I’ve completed two of their units and used a third for reference – and I have to tell you how impressed I’ve been! Lapbooking is something I’ve been doing for quite some time, but I’ve never come across a pre-made unit organized quite so well. This…
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Horizons Math
One of the few curriculum choices that we haven’t changed in our two years of homeschooling is our math program. Although we came very close to trying out Math U See, we realized that Horizons Math is working for us, and if something is working for us, we need to keep it! What I Like About Horizons Math: Spiral Approach…
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