When this time of year rolls around, there’s one thing my kids ask for more than anything…”When are we going to plant our garden, Mom?” I have to admit, I’m just as excited to get my hands dirty as they are. There’s something about sticking a tiny plant or seed into the dirt and a couple months later, enjoying the …
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Get Ready for the Code: Pre-Literacy Primers
Get Ready for the Code is the first of 3 pre-literacy phonics primers from Explode the Code. These are simple to use workbooks perfect for your prek-1st grades. Each book focuses in-depth on 6-8 lower-case consonants. They cover letter recognition, letter formation, letter sounds, relating beginning sounds to pictures, left-right orientation, and using small motor skills. A Review from The Curriculum Choice
Back to Basics: How to Learn and Enjoy Traditional American Skills
Have you ever read to your children a book that explains an old fashioned way of doing things? Maybe a book about a family that makes their own maple syrup, goats milk cheese, raises cows or sews quilts? Have you ever wanted a resource book that will help you learn more about living a simple life? Maybe you want to…
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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 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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