When we first started homeschooling I turned to the lovely book The Top 100 Homeschool Picks. Through the information inside, the self quiz and the results of that we were quickly and easily led to the Five In A Row Curriculum. We used that curriculum for five beautiful years. Then suddenly we were in need of new curriculum. Our eldest…
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Celebrating Advent
The Christmas Creep–it comes earlier every year! In our local stores Christmas decorations are already out, right next to the Halloween candy. It seems like the push to extend the Christmas shopping season always gets stronger. We know the reason for the season, but sometimes the gift lists and party obligations can put us on edge and cloud our vision….
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Using Passport to the World from Master Books with the Parent Lesson Planner
Passport to the World is a geography book for elementary ages, paired with a Parent Lesson planner it’s a full hands-on curriculum!
Learning Chinese Radicals with Chineasy
When you begin to learn Mandarin Chinese, one of the first things you discover are the repetitive graphical components within different characters. For example, can you see what look like three little water drops within these water-related characters: 江 (jiāng / river)，河 (hé / river), and 湖 (hú / lake). These repeated graphical components are called radicals and they are…
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Review: Classical Composition by Memoria Press
Over the years I have used several writing curricula including Writing Strands, Writing and Institute for Excellence in Writing (IEW). Last year our Co-op switched from IEW (which is a great program also) to Classical Composition by Memoria Press. I will still introduce writing to our younger students using IEW but we will move them into Classical Composition as they enter…
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Shakespeare’s Storybook ~ Folk Tales that Inspired the Bard
I don’t know about you, but Shakespeare was not my favorite topic in high school. While I loved English and writing, I always felt so bogged down by the language in Shakespeare. For this reason I put off covering Shakespeare for a long time with my oldest child. Then I began to find awesome resources for introducing Shakespeare earlier in…
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Learn Math Fast High School Geometry
Yes, I am sharing about Learn Math Fast again! Why? Because Learn Math Fast High School Geometry is now available. This volume, along with all the others, continues to bless our homeschool learning. “I am so happy because I understand math!” ~ my eldest daughter Don’t miss the discount code at the end! Good only through the end of October…
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World Literature: A Full-Year High School Course by 7 Sisters Homeschool
All homeschool students are required to take an English/Language Arts course during each of their high school years. We don’t often use “boxed curriculum” in our homeschool therefore over the years we have pulled together many different resources to create meaningful Language Arts courses to address subjects such as writing, literature, vocabulary, and more. As my children began moving into the high…
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Composers Activity-Pak from Home School in the Woods
This post includes affiliate links. When I am looking for fabulous extras to round out our homeschool year, I always check out the offerings at Home School in the Woods. They have wonderful timeline materials, history studies, lapbooks, and more! Today I’d love to share how we’re using Home School in the Woods Composers Activity-Pak. Learning about composers Teaching music…
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How to Raise an Adult by Julie Lythcott-Haims
How to Raise an Adult: Break Free of the Overparenting Trap and Prepare Your Kids for Success is one of the very popular books in our public library, currently with a waiting list of over 52 people even though there are 20 copies. Why? Well, it seems that parenting in North America fails in two opposing ways: on the one…
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