Making homeschool decisions easy
July 2 marks the half-way point of the calendar year. And what a year 2020 has been thus far! How are your family adventures adding up for the first six months of 2020? We’re living in unprecedented days, but that doesn’t mean the family fun and festivities need to end. Brainstorm and think creatively to plan activities for the next days and weeks and months
Is Genesis History? This homeschool year we enjoyed some evening family time with an excellent digital Bible study series resource from Compass Classroom. One of our favorite times of learning is when we wait until Dad is home. I love the family discussions and world view question and answer sessions promoted by great homeschool resources like these. All opinions are our own and we love
At our house handwriting practice was causing friction. My verbal, creative 2nd grader just didn’t like any kind of writing. I was on the look out for something that might change her mind. She liked how fancy my own cursive handwriting looked! Maybe cursive was the solution to our handwriting troubles? We started a program at the beginning of the school year, but she found
When we first began home educating our eldest son we began with the Five In A Row Curriculum. I was smitten with the fact that it used many beloved picture books and would introduce us to some new ones we weren’t quite familiar with. We used the Five In A Row (FIAR) Curriculum for five beautiful years with our children before it was, sadly, time
Over the years we have used many story Bibles, but Teach Them Your Way, O Lord by Amanda de Boer is the best one I have come across. Written by a gifted mother and former teacher, it has several features that make it unique. Teach Them Your Way, O Lord by Amanda DeBoer First of all, it is two story Bibles in one. The first
Sizzling hot temperatures across many parts of the country mean summer has arrived, even though the calendar doesn’t technically flip over to that season for a couple of weeks. The month of June brings excitement, with trips to the pool or beach or lake, watermelon and fresh vegetables, picnics and pajama parties, sleeping late, honoring Dads and extra minutes of sunshine. Use those extra moments
With intentional planning, this month MAY be the best one yet to make family memories and have oodles and oodles of family fun. Choose some of the celebrations below or create your own unique May homeschool family holidays to make it an aMAYzing month with those you love. 5 May Homeschool Family Fun Ideas World Turtle Day – Create a fun craft to celebrate the
Portals & Prophets is a Biblical time travel game focusing on moving your player to various locations on the map of Israel. The trick is to be in a location in the correct century. If your family is like mine, you love games! We collect games. We play games. We love new games. Biblical games are a unique challenge for game makers. And it’s fun
