Using Living Books & Literature Guides are a wonderful way to enrich your child’s learning in an engaging and meaningful way. They are also a wonderful way to engage multiple children at one time, using various levels of literature guides for the same book.
Using a 4 Year Cycle of Sciences
A 4 Year Cycle of Sciences is a classical method of study where you study each science in depth every 4 years, building on previous knowledge. The 4 sciences being Life Science, Earth Science, Chemistry, and Physics. Learn why this method is used and get curriculum ideas for each one.
Have you heard about Eeboo?
Eeboo offers safe simple gifts and toys to play and share with your children. Puzzles, toys, educational games and more to inspire creativity. A review from The Curriculum Choice
Using Dictation as a Grammar Tool
Using Dictation as a Grammar Tool is an effective and natural way to teach things like handwriting, spelling, vocabulary, sentence structure, and more.
The Great Editing Adventure
Reminiscant of the one room school house, where the teacher would write a sentence to be corrected on the blackboard, The Great Editing Adventure series provides adventures that reviews grammar daily in this similar fashion. There are 3 adventure stories in vol. 1 that review grammar, writing mechanics, spelling, vocabulary, finding synonyms and dictionary use. Each day you read a new sentence as you write it
Science in a Nutshell – Kits for Homeschool Science
Science in a Nutshell kits by Delta Education are geared towards 2-6th grades. They come in a huge array of life, earth and physical science topics.
Primary Language Lessons
I’d like to start off with a little background before I give this review because I think that understanding the circumstances can be helpful to another mom with a similar situation. So, here I was homeschooling my two oldest boys and getting ready to begin some sort of formal studies with my third son. I was using Shurley Grammar for my older two and knew that I could
Trivium Mastery – The Intersection of Three Roads book review
You can’t teach an old dog new tricks. Or, so they say. I’m not an old dog but after homeschooling for a number of years I felt like I’d heard and seen it all. This is especially the case with a classical education, because I’ve been around since the beginning of the resurgence of the ever-so-popular The Well Trained Mind by Susan and Jesse Wise Bauer.