My oldest daughter is an artist. She has been given gifts. She’s not a prodigy or anything, but she enjoys everything about art. When Ms. Volin asked if we would like to review her Home Art Studio DVD’s, she was stoked! We watched the sample videos and she leapt right in on the project from […] Read more…
WordBuildOnline {Schoolhouse Review Crew}
I am only one person. It’s really hard to be a teacher and a mother of three little people all at the same time. When the review crew offered the opportunity to test WordBuildOnline, an online vocabulary program from Dynamic Literacy, I jumped at it! Last school year, I dropped our vocabulary workbook because I […] Read more…
Circle Time for Catholic Kids – Lent
Disclaimer: This post contains affiliate links — thanks for your support! We have been doing circle time quasi-consistently for almost two years and it’s a fabulous way to transition from play & work to school time. Right now, my kids are 7, 4 & 20 months and these are the resources we have been using […] Read more…
In Freedom’s Cause {Schoolhouse Review Crew}
Winter can get so boring north of the 45th parallel. Last week school was canceled more than once due to windchills of -20! We’ve been mostly stuck indoors for 4 months now with no end in sight. When that happens, it’s nice to have interesting things to listen to while playing. Our latest was a […] Read more…
UberSmart Math Facts Review {Schoolhouse Review Crew}
Much like when we hit our teens & twenties wall, we are hitting a wall with addition and subtraction math facts. Many curriculums (especially online ones), teach strategies for problem solving and totally ignore memorization. In my opinion, its totally necessary. When the opportunity to review UberSmart Math Facts came up, I all but begged to […] Read more…
8 Steps to Prepping for the New {Home} School Year {5 Days of Back to Homeschool – The Early Years}
If you haven’t already started your school year, here are 8 easy steps to prepping for your next school year. 1. Put away last years curriculum. First of all, empty the place where you keep your current curriculum, whether that is shelves or drawers. I keep the kids art supplies there, too, so I reorganized […] Read more…
Easing into a New {Home} School Year {5 Days of Back to Homeschool – The Early Years}
Easing into school is always difficult — the weather is still nice, the other kids are still on summer break (we school year round) and frankly, we are still working on self-discipline :). All of us!! We spend the first month slowly easing into school. Preschool – Month 1 For my preschooler, we are going […] Read more…
3 Tools for Teaching Teens & Twenties {5 Days of Back to Homeschool – The Early Years}
When I was teaching our oldest math in Kindergarten, we had THE hardest time with the teens. She could count them out loud but being able to identify them was practically impossible. We got stuck on them for months. Here are 3 things we did that got us over that hump. […] Read more…
First Day of {Home} School Traditions {5 Days of Back to Homeschool – The Early Years}
As year round homeschoolers, even though we take off the month of July, we still do summer school. Summer school tends to be the most hated subjects because they are the ones I don’t want to lose ground in. This year was math. In order to try to build a little excitement around the new […] Read more…
Homeschooling for First Grade & Under – Avoiding Overload {5 Days of Back to Homeschool – The Early Years}
Disclaimer: This post contains affiliate links. Thanks for your support! We have always known we were going to homeschool and being the list making over achiever that I am, I tried to start school at age 2, failing miserably, starting & stopping every year until age 6. True story. This post is to share […] Read more…