So we are starting our new school year soon and while we did some fun unit study & review items last month, we are going to ease into the school year slowly so we don’t waste what little nice weather we get! Miss Lady will turn 5 in October. She probably have qualified for Young Fives […] Read more…
My kids love science. They love Magic School House books and Cat in the Hat’s science books and any opportunity for hands-on science experiments/projects (usually NOT from mom :D). When the opportunity to review Science Unit Studies For Homeschoolers and Teachers from Funtastic Unit Studies was offered and I was researching it, I knew the kids would love it. […] Read more…
So when the opportunity for reviewing some items from Memoria Press came up, I was pretty excited. We are a fairly classical family and I’m even working on beefing up my own classical education. You know, the one I never got in school :). Anyway, we ended up receiving a copy of MP’s program for phonics, […] Read more…
3/13-3/18 My youngest daughter is completely different from her older sister. My oldest is calm and totally into workbooks and things. My younger daughter is more about learning via osmosis. Or computer. That will do it too :). When the opportunity came for reviewing some items from one of my favorite homeschool companies The Critical […] Read more…
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…
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 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…
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…
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…
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…