AVKO is a non-profit, 501(C)3 membership organization that focuses on the development and production of materials and especially techniques to teach reading and spelling, handwriting (manuscript and cursive), and keyboarding. AVKO is dedicated to the teaching everyone how to read and spell, regardless of their mild to moderate learning disabilities, dyslexia, poverty, or opportunity. …
Bright Ideas Press is a family-owned and operated company that specializes in “Practical, Fun, and Affordable History, Geography, and Science Resources”. Maggie Hogan began homeschooling her now grown sons in 1991. Since there weren’t many resources for homeschoolers available then, she got a lot of practice writing her own curriculum. She is now using that …
As much as I’ve been trying to ignore it, Christmas is coming. I’ve tried putting my fingers in my ears, closing my eyes and humming, but it hasn’t worked. I am going to have to get started on Christmas shopping. Perhaps even harder for me is coming up with ideas to give to others about …
Last week came and went with no hysterics from my oldest son. Of course that led me to hope for another good week. So far, not so good. On his very first subject, he reacted first to the length of the assignment, then my request to do it neatly. I finally urged him to set …
I have a confession. I am an absolute jinx when it comes to science experiments. I think it all started when I set that towel on fire in Physical Science in the 9th grade. Strangely enough I went on to get a degree in Chemical Engineering. That’s a lot of science labs. One of the …
We began studying Latin four years ago when my oldest child was in the second grade. I read everything I could find on the different Latin curricula that were available and finally decided on Latin for Children for him. He completed the 3 books in 4 school years and this year he has started Latin …
I’ve shared several times about our homeschool book club. It is my older children’s favorite homeschool activity. My son and daughter kept asking me when we are starting book club. Finally this week we got together at the park, and while the kids played, the mothers planned out our monthly book club projects. Here is …
I love high-tech gadgets. If I had more disposable income I’m sure I’d have more gadgets. (Can you say i-phone?) My laptop is my fairly constant companion these days, and I really don’t know how I managed without it. I love making color-coded chore charts and schedules on the computer. I’ve converted to a mostly …
It looks like another week has passed. I did fairly well on last week’s list. I’m carrying over a couple of items to this week’s list. Write review of Studypod. Iron ALL the clothes waiting in the ironing line! Organize computer files. Set up shared folders for network. Mount wall lights in kids’ rooms. Do …
Yesterday I began First Language Lessons with my 2nd grade son. This is my all-time favorite English resource. Since I love it so much and it was on my mind, I decided to make it the topic of my latest review on The Curriculum Choice. I’m not posting the review here, so you’ll have to …
