I have something to brag about. My 10 year old son has done his math everyday for the last month without complaining! Is this due to my fabulous parenting skills? What about my exciting teaching? Unfortunately the answer is no on both counts. As part of the Homeschool Crew, I’ve been given a free trial …
I was so excited when I learned that the entire Homeschool Crew was going to receive the Clean and Flip Chore System and Times Tales by Trigger Memory Systems. I have been hearing about Times Tales for years and had never had the opportunity to see it. And as a neat freak, I’m always looking …
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Here is a cute project that my older son (10 yo) made for our bookclub. The assignment was to read a Christmas book and report on it. In addition, they were to make a Christmas craft that related to the book, if possible. He read The Best Christmas Pageant Ever and chose to make a …
Time4Learning is an on-line education program that offers instruction in reading, language arts, and math. It can be used as a core curriculum, for enrichment, or for remediation. Lessons are available from the preschool level all the way through middle school. In addition to the core subjects, there are also science and social studies enrichment …
I like to make a lot of things from scratch. I think it’s both healthier and more economical to cook that way. (Not to mention it usually tastes better). I definitely don’t make everything from scratch though. For instance, I do buy bread from the bakery thrift store. I bake bread for dinner, but I …
We put up our Christmas tree this week! Now it really feels like December. Here is the corner where we set up our tree. It’s nice and cleaned out of the usual pile of toddler toys and books. Older son holding the door open waiting for my husband to bring the tree up from having …
The Little Man in the Map is a book written by Andrew Martonyi to help children memorize the 50 states. It is published by Schoolside Press and is sold at their website for $19.95. It is also available at Amazon.com. It is a top-quality, hard-back book with glossy full-color pictures and rhyming text. The premise …
Last night after dinner, my sweet husband surprised me with a late birthday present. He got me a new camera! Here it is on amazon.com ! It was one of those things that I wanted, but maybe not really needed. The on/off switch fell off my old camera this summer. I went for a while …
Alphabet Alley is a company devoted to preschool toys with a Bible theme. I received 2 different games to review.The first is the Noah’s Ark Go Fish game. The game is the old classic game of Go Fish except that there are 10 different things from Noah’s Ark to "go fish for". The illustrations include …
I was in tears last night as we sang this song in church. I have been going through some time of sorrow that is continuing. It is very likely that I will lose my grandmother within the next couple of weeks. I thought I would share because I know that there are a lot of …
