Making homeschool decisions easy
I have a five-year-old and a three-year-old and at the turn of the year I was feeling like I wanted to change up our math routine a bit. We have been using Ray’s Arithmetic and it has provided my son with a fantastic understanding of how addition and subtraction works. We are still using Ray’s a couple days a week, but I wanted to incorporate
If there is one drawing book that I see consistently on homeschool curriculum sites, it’s Drawing with Children by Mona Brookes. I am not anything of an artist myself, so I thought this would be a good one for me to check out. When it came in the mail, I pretty much sat down and read it cover to cover. It is a wonderful resource
Kids love to play games. Moms love it when their kids are learning. Everyone is happy when they find an activity that satisfies both criteria. Last year I noticed a blogger friend (Julie from Highhill Homeschool) had created a game called SPEED! It’s a card game that teaches skip counting from 2’s to 9’s. When I first read about SPEED!, I thought it would be
The Writing Road to Reading was one of the first purchases I made when I began to teach my son. It was recommended on classical-homeschooling.org as being a great resource for teaching reading to children. It really is a great resource! The Writing Road to Reading teaches a phonics based method for learning to read. Unlike other phonics programs it recommends using writing as the
*** Don’t miss the Music For Little Mozarts giveaway at the end! A few months ago my family bought a piano. Growing up, playing the piano was a regular part of life, so I was anxious to have a piano in our home for the sake of my children (well, for me too!) I was so excited to finally get a piano and I couldn’t
Last year I started using Primary Language Lessons with my son. Primary Language Lessons is a Charlotte Mason style English book. It is truly a joy to use, true to Charlotte Mason style. The lessons are short but effective, conversational in style, and thorough in content. From the back cover: Imaginative lessons and short, jargon free instructions for teachers make it a pleasure for
I have a three-year-old little girl and just before she turned three we started using The Reading Lesson. I had been teaching her the names of the letters and she was beginning to learn some of the sounds that they make, so I thought it would be a great time to start learning to read! When I taught my son to read, I essentially created
Last summer my son started asking lots of questions like “What did people do before there were shoes?” and “Where did people live before there were houses?” That let me know that it was time to start learning history! Being that I love the classical model of teaching, I knew that I wanted to teach him history chronologically and that I wanted to do it
