Making homeschool decisions easy
‘We can’t go to the store now, it’s raining cats and dogs out there!’ ‘You’ll get through this, there’s a light at the end of the tunnel.’ ‘If you advertise this for free, every Tom, Dick and Harry will come out to get it.’ Recognize the idioms in these sentences? Are you sure of what an idiom is? idiom |ˈidēəm|noun a group of words established by
The first thing to note is this iPad app is FREE! — so it’s a low risk, delete-if-you-don’t-like-it investment. Created by iCivics, Pocket Law Firm app turns the user into the owner of a law firm determined to defend the US Constitution. As the one in charge, you handle clients, helping to match their cases to just the right lawyer. Not so fast though — first, you
Many homeschool parents will have at least one subject in which they feel less confident teaching than others. For our family, while we appreciate visual arts and encourage learning artists and their works….the fact remains that actual instruction of art techniques is fairly weak. In comes Home Art Studio DVDs – help for families like us! What is Home Art Studio? Art educator Lindsay Volin has
Setting out to homeschool high school for the first time, we found ourselves looking at lots of curriculum – from biology to language and vocabulary – everything was new to us. Along with academics came a need to organize daily assignments. High school is a necessary time to learn skills of keeping up with one’s work load a little more independently than before. We searched
Apologia is well known among homeschoolers for their science curriculum elementary through high school. Our family was recently introduced to another branch of what they offer – the What We Believe series. Four books focused on worldview training for ages 6-14, these were created to equip kids to understand truth and to tackle the various messages of our culture today. Apologia’s series takes a look
I’ve written about a great vocabulary resource we’ve found for high school and today I’d like to share another for high school biology — Science Roots. While reading through a friend’s blog post, I discovered the booklet and decided to give it a try. Latin study is a regular in our home, but I knew the roots necessary for biology understanding had probably not been
This summer while preparing for our BIG step into homeschooling high school, I came across a set of vocabulary flashcards that seemed interesting and helpful – Marie’s Words. Purchased without even looking up a review (unusual for me!), I’m so glad we got these little cards. Both my high schooler and I are pleased with them! Marie’s Words is a set of 550 cards, only 2.5″
Like many Christian families, our home and family has seen several different children’s Bibles come through our doors. I appreciate Bibles for little minds and hearts that tell things accurately, but not too descriptively on everything. Quite honestly, the Scriptures are not G-rated! In time they’ll read more, but for the littlest ones, about ages 3-7, we’ve found one that works for us — The
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