If I’ve learned one thing after homeschooling for five years it’s this: no two homeschool years are exactly alike. Every year homeschool families face different challenges to finding their weekly rhythm. Juggling multiple subjects, various grade levels and everything else that comes with family life is never easy. I’m always looking for ways to streamline […]
Easy In Home Art Instruction
As a homeschool mom I am diligent to be sure my son’s education includes all the basics–math, science, social studies, reading, writing, etc. You know the list. You make your lessons plans each week being sure to cover all the important subjects. But one area that we kept overlooking was art education. I seemed to easily incorporate […]
A Homeschool Writing Curriculum That Truly Inspires Young Writers
Every good parent wants to find good role models for their kids to follow. There are plenty of folks you want your kids to avoid and Lord knows we know we can’t be everything our child needs. So we try to find people whose values align with ours and whose skills can inspire our children […]
A Faith-Based Science Curriculum for Homeschool Families
Every family decides to homeschool for different reasons. My husband and I were most concerned with raising our kids with a solid Christian worldview. I taught in the public school system and followed the trends developing around the country. I knew that my children would be subjected to teaching that didn’t align with my worldview […]
Integrated Curriculum for Your Kindergartner
The transition from preschool to elementary education can be challenging. Your focus must shift from helping your child develop fine motor skills and recognizing letters and numbers to introducing them to core subjects like math, science and reading. If you’re not careful you’ll lose sight of other important subjects such as art, bible, music and […]
Language Learning Comes Naturally with Rosetta Stone
One of our main goals as homeschooling parents is to raise children who can engage their culture with the truth of God’s word. As our world seems to get smaller and smaller and cultural boundaries begin to blur the need to speak a foreign language becomes more evident. So we want to make foreign language […]
2015-2016 Curriculum Choices
Oh, my goodness! I don’t know about you, but I’m not ready to jump into our next school year. This past year was rough dealing with loss and then a new job that moved us to another state. As you can imagine, our school year ended up being a lot longer than originally planned. Although, I […]
Elementary Music Appreciation
Disclosure: I received this product for free and was compensated for my time. All opinions expressed are my own and I was not required to post a positive review. Our son loves music, but music lessons aren’t cheap and the children’s choir at church is only active during the fall. Finding something to continue to […]
2014-2015 Curriculum Choices
Well, its that time again. Time to share our curriculum choices for the new school year. For our second year of homeschooling we decided to pick and choose, instead of using Sonlight for everything. We’re still using Sonlight’s Core for the most part, but I wasn’t really excited about their science, so we’ve gone in […]
2013-2014 Curriculum
Oh, my goodness I can’t believe I just typed that title! Eeek! This is it. Our first official year of homeschooling! Although, we’ve been doing “school” for a while now, the fact that we are diving into full time studies is a bit overwhelming. Is this the case for any of you other mama’s starting […]