Hearts & Trees Prairie Kit

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I have an eleven-year-old who loves to sew.  She also has read all of the Little House on the Prairie books.  This time period in American history interests her greatly. I believe she probably would have been happy living the life of Laura Ingalls Wilder. Our family just returned from a trip to see parts [...]

Eat Your Way Around the World from GeoMatters

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Our family is always on the lookout for interesting ways to add variety to our regular homeschool studies. With two teenage boys in the home, I was thrilled to find a geography related cookbook to go with our world geography studies. My boys never turn down the opportunity to eat. Eat Your Way Around the [...]

The Creation Children’s Book

The Creation is a lovely hardback children’s book telling the story of Creation in the Bible. I suppose there are numerous children’s books on Creation out there but this book has something different… …each day of The Creation is illustrated by way of hand-appliqued quilt illustrations! Author Janice Green has done a fabulous job of [...]

Loving Living Math

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“From the time my children were in kindergarten, I have followed the same basic weekly schedule for math. We typically complete three textbook lessons per week and two living math lessons per week.” ~ Cindy West Cindy West’s Loving Living Math has given my family permission. Permission to learn and enjoy the real life stuff [...]

Sew Teach Me Sewing Curriculum Review

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Since my daughter is in 8th grade this year, I was eager to start some formal home economics classes with her as part of her school day.  Not only do I feel that home economics classes teach valuable life skills, I think they are a wonderful, hands-on break from the more academic subjects which compose her [...]