My husband loves to do the Jumble in the daily paper. He is amazingly fast too. Me….not so much. I have noticed that over the years I have gotten better, and I can usually figure out most of the words. I’m just not very fast. Apparently my brain doesn’t work in the same way. Honestly, …
The Wonder Hanger® is an affordable tool that’s great for any Spring Cleaning features. This cascading clothes organizer increases closet space by enabling you to stack clothes vertically. Each Wonder Hanger holds 5 wood, metal or plastic hangers. There are 8 hangers to a package – enough to hang 40 garments. The open-mouth design allows …
The world-wide web is a big place… A really big place… Just about anything you want to know, you can find on-line. If you know how to search for it. And if you can trust the information. The last thing you want to do is plan a homeschool lesson using faulty facts and outdated information. …
My daughter (10 years old) cannot say her r’s correctly. I first became concerned when she wasn’t able to pronounce them correctly at 5 years old, so I mentioned it to a friend who is a Speech Pathologist. She assured me that it was perfectly normal at that age, and that r is one of …
Have you heard? My new favorite spelling program, All About Spelling, is launching a new website – All About Reading. Previously, I reviewed the first of their new readers, Beehive Reader 1, which is tied to All About Spelling 1. (They are changing the name of the Beehive Reader to Cobweb the Cat. I will …
The Terrestria Chronicles is a series of Christian allegories by Ed Dunlop. The setting is Terrestria, a land of knights and castles. Book Four: The Crown of Kuros In book four, Josiah, in his impatience to get to the archery tournament, fails to lock the vault that contains the Crown of Kuros. Morphina, an evil …
I have been tremendously blessed in so many ways. But one important way is financially. No, we’re not rich. (On a little side note, have you ever noticed that no one will admit that they’re rich?) Well, I take that back, by American standards we are not rich. Compared to the vast majority of the …
As a member of the TOS Homeschool Crew, I was introduced to Homeschool in the Woods last year with their New Testament Activity Pak. So I already knew that they sold beautiful curriculum materials. This year I received the new Olde World Style Maps to review. These maps are beautiful black-line maps for your children …
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This fall, I received All About Spelling to review. When I wrote the review, I had only used the program with my 4th grade daughter. Since that time, I have been using All About Spelling with my 2nd grade son-the one that may be dyslexic – the one that did so poorly on his yearly …
Last year I reviewed Math Mammoth. For that review, I received Level 1 from the Light Blue Series. Light Blue is the series designed to be a complete math curriculum divided by grade level. I liked the curriculum so much, that I have continued to use it with my younger son. He is actually just …
