Why We Chose Trail Guide to Learning for Our Charlotte Mason Homeschool
Several years ago, I was struggling to keep up with homeschooling my two oldest children. We were using a traditional textbook curriculum because that is what I was familiar with and I was very pleased with the academics. The problem, though, was that I had a very hard time motivating my children to sit and […]
Continue readingHelp Your Child Develop Thinking Skills with Laser Maze Jr.
One thing I have been wanting to spend more time on in our homeschool is helping the kids to work on thinking skills. I have one child in particular who will give up as soon as they have to think too hard about something. I needed to figure out how to stretch this child’s “thinking […]
Continue reading3 Mistakes Homeschooling Parents Make When Teaching Handwriting
Handwriting is an essential part of what our children need to learn. They’ll be writing every single day of their lives, and it’s up to us to help them develop handwriting skills to make this essential life skill easier for them! Many times I have seen homeschooled children struggle with handwriting. I have seen a […]
Continue reading7 Reasons We’re Using a Video Class for Homeschool Bible
When I posted my list of curriculum choices at the beginning of this school year, I noted that we would be doing a streaming video class from BJU Press Distance Learning for Bible class. Now I want to give you my reasons for choosing to go this route and how a video curriculum benefits our […]
Continue readingHow to Teach Art at Home like a Pro: Even if You Can’t Draw a Straight Line
By Jim Pence, See the Light chalk artist “I want to include art in my homeschool curriculum, but how can I teach my children to draw if I don’t know how myself?” Art is one of those subjects that is difficult for most of us to teach. We know art is important in […]
Continue readingOur Multi-Grade Homeschool Health Curriculum
UPDATE 10/2019: It appears that this company is no longer in business, which is disappointing. For an alternative health curriculum idea, check out my review of Masterbooks Elementary Anatomy curriculum. I posted our multi-grade homeschool curriculum choices a couple months ago. I wanted to combine all of my children for as many subjects as possible […]
Continue readingKindergarten Complete Review
Do you have a child who will be starting kindergarten soon? Are you overwhelmed looking at all the curriculum choices available? We recently received a review copy of Kindergarten Complete, so I thought you would be interested to see what we thought! Pros: All-inclusive As someone who is easily overwhelmed, and all-inclusive curriculum is a […]
Continue readingThinkfun Circuit Maze: Our Honest Review
When Timberdoodle sent us the Circuit Maze from Thinkfun, I was originally hoping that the kids’ grandpa would be able to teach them about electricity and play the game with them. But they got really antsy to play it before we could get together with him, so mommy attempted to figure it out. I’ll be […]
Continue readingMarie’s Words: Vocabulary for the Left Brained Learner
We practice a Charlotte Mason(ish) style of learning in our homeschool. Most of our learning is literature based. My children learn much of their vocabulary simply by inferring the meaning of words through the context of their reading. But there are a lot of words that the typical elementary-aged child may not find in reading […]
Continue readingWhy I’m Teaching Creative Writing to My First Grader
Teaching creative writing as part of a first grade curriculum is not something I would have considered. It’s not really talked about much, and if it’s taught at all it just a small integrated part of a language arts curriculum. Now, let me say that I am quite particular about language arts. Learning to read […]
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