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 … [Read more...] about A Little Classical Teamwork: First Language Lessons and Writing with Ease
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. Using critical thinking, inquiry skills and the … [Read more...] about Science Sleuths
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 … [Read more...] about Apologia Science: Exploring Creation with General Science
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 Preschool Projects, I jumped for joy! The projects looked … [Read more...] about Preschool Activities are as easy as 1, 2, 3
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 Earth by Ann Voskamp, I thought, “Maybe this is … [Read more...] about A Child’s Geography
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 about one today, called Schoolhouse Rock. Schoolhouse Rock is series of short musical cartoons … [Read more...] about Schoolhouse Rock Helps Learning Stick
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 by Ned Bustard introduces you to two funny little men named Mr. Longitude and Mr. Latitude. They take … [Read more...] about Legends and Leagues
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 on it, she generally feels disappointed. After all, in her … [Read more...] about History Scribe Notebooking Pages Review
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 is especially helpful for those who have never used lapbooks before, … [Read more...] about A Journey Through Learning
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 - Because of having some children who has difficulty with new concepts, … [Read more...] about Horizons Math
Happy Scribe Copybooks
Based on my conversations with other homeschoolers over the years, we have mixed opinions about the importance of handwriting instruction within our homeschools. Why do I bother to teach my children cursive handwriting in this age of e-mail, texts, and instant messaging? My children need to be able to read the cursive handwriting of others. For example, they will need to be able to read both … [Read more...] about Happy Scribe Copybooks
Winners of the Spring Cleaning give-away
We had a great turn out for the blog hop. Thank you to everyone that participated in the Spring Cleaning give-away here on Curriculum Choice and on your own blogs as well. The winners for our give-away are: Rebecca (comment #5) won the Trivium Mastery book. Jennie (comment #33) won the Brain curriculum by Ellen McHenry. Kim (comment #22) won The Elements by Ellen McHenry. Alexis … [Read more...] about Winners of the Spring Cleaning give-away