When I started homeschooling one of my biggest concerns was: How will I know that my children are really learning? In fact, during the first couple of years I had nightmares that we’d fall victims to the “Fill-in-the-blank” cycle of teaching. You see I would spend a week teaching my children all about “Rounding to the nearest 100″ They would …Read the Rest
We recently had the opportunity to review Kinderbach! Kinderbach is an early education piano curriculum for home or classroom use. The target age for this program is 3-7 years old. There are 6 curriculum levels to Kinderbach, each with a very detailed syllabus of what skills are being addressed. Each level is scheduled to last 10 weeks (with 4 lessons/week) …Read the Rest
Update: This Giveaway is now Closed! We have Two Winners: Comment #128 was Marcie who said, “I really like that primary, manuscript, and wide ruled are offered. As a parent of a 2nd grade reluctant writer (who is also still learning to form letters), I like that I have options for him as well as my 4th grader.” Comment # …Read the Rest
It’s been a long time, but I finally have another TOT in the house. Monkey is 2 1/2 and in full on TOT mode. Which means he wants to do “school” like his older siblings, but he has the attention span of a… Well……. of a Monkey But he absolutely MUST be keep busy. As we all know That if …Read the Rest
Can I tell you something about our family? We own WAY, WAY, WAY to many bibles. I know that sounds like a backwards statement, But it’s true. I think if I stacked up all the bibles in one pile it would tower over my two year old. It’s almost as if we keep purchasing them in HOPES that they will …Read the Rest
Thanks to our November Sponsors: Speekee offers a Free Trial of their online Spanish program for kids! Did you know that Speekee won the 2011 TOS Homeschool Crew Blue Ribbon Award. Homeschool Mom’s simply LOVE this program. Pssst…. Like them on Facebook for a chance to win a TWO FREE Months! Hearts at Home Curriculum will solve your curriculum gaps! …Read the Rest
We’re continuing on with our Human Anatomy science lessons. If you haven’t already seen our activities for SKIN you can check out this post here. These past couple of weeks we’ve been learning about THE BRAIN! We made these amazing brain hats from EllenjMcHenry.com We made our own brain puzzle to learn about the different lobes of the brain. We …Read the Rest
Have you heard of Big I.Q. Kids? Big I.Q. Kids is an online learning program for children covering Math, Spelling, Vocabulary, and U.S. Geography. Big I.Q Kids offers Free programs and Paid Premium programs. I’ve used the Free spelling programs with each of my children in the past, so I was semi-familiar with Big I.Q Kids before we were asked …Read the Rest
I’ve been meaning to make these for a while now. Tonight I finally scratched the itch and whipped them up…Just in time for the school year! I plan on using these with Sissy (Gr.3) and Bubba (Gr.1) in hopes that they will learn the necessary steps to execute a “Scientific” science experiment. I haven’t yet decided on the different projects …Read the Rest
Poor Bub. He is just too young for Cub Scouts this year, but he is desperate be a part of a club (read: to start earning patches) so I decided we would just go ahead and make up our OWN club. Yeah. We’re dorky like that. I purchased this book: Little Contenders of Faith and almost got the patches and …Read the Rest
Today I’m joining up with the Not-Back-to-School Blog Hop in order to share what we’ll be using in our classroom for the upcoming 2011-2012 school year. I will be homeschooling a 3rd Grader, and a First Grader next year, and I’m going to do my best to OVERLAP learning where ever possible. In order to prepare for our school year …Read the Rest
Do your children have a nature journal? Do you? I’ll admit that I’ve tried them. But first let me just tell you a little story…. So sit back……grab your coffee, and enjoy my failure for a moment. A few years ago when I first decided to homeschool, I was introduced to the idea of Nature Journals. There were so many …Read the Rest
Got Boys? Do they Like Bugs? (nevermind. Silly question) Need to work on Math? Check out these Super Buggy Boards! And these Super Buggy Number Cards! Designed to appeal to your little men, while sneaking in a bit of math like vegetables in a ice cold smoothie. They’ll be rolling and counting, and checking out all the different bugs that …Read the Rest
Thanks to our July Sponsor: Speekee~ You might remember that last month I mentioned Speekee’s new homeschool curriculum? Well it’s ready and LIVE on the site, so now is the perfect opportunity to take advantage of the Free trial. Here are some details: “This is a 40-week program divided into 4-day weeks with an activity per day. Most activities are …Read the Rest
Summer is a great time to harvest fruit…. REAL fruit. These printables are brand NEW and would be perfect for some laid back, summer learning that focuses on character development. So get your laminators out ladies! Fruits of the Spirit Preschool Printables Fruits of the Spirit K-5 Printables Seeds Family Worship Printables Hope your Summer is off to a great …Read the Rest
I just finished uploading two more of our Famous Artist Crafts! Jackson Pollock This was a well loved activity for my kids, they loved blowing with the straws! Me? I wan’t really into passing out for an art project, but they were in dizzy oblivion. Andy Warhol These were really fun, Sissy enjoyed this a bit more then Bub, who …Read the Rest
I know you’re just dying to know what we made with all this beautiful playdough! I meant to post this sooner so as not to make you wait in anticipation so long! A few weeks back we learned about the layers of the earth and this clay made it possible for us to make our own model! Didn’t it turn …Read the Rest
Busy building our towers over here! And I’ve got a TON of new printables up on Bible Story Printables all about the Tower of Babel. There are some adorable games you can use in your classroom including this: Tower of Babel File Folder Game And this Languages of the World Card Game There is a bunch more all listed here: …Read the Rest
That’s right… Spelling! Spelling is supposed to be fun! And we’ve been a bit at a standstill with all the worksheets that have been printed and cut apart and glued, and tossed into the trash. It is time for something NEW! Time for Homeschool Recon: Spelling! So Sissy (8) has a brand new Language Arts Curriculum that I’ll be posting …Read the Rest
This Giveaway is Now Closed We Have a winner! Comment #198: Canaan Herkamp who said, “My 2011 resolution for homeschooling is to be more consistent.” Congratulations Cannan! And Don’t forget You can use your CurrClick Coupon Codes until April 30th, so write them down! 40% off ABC Fun & 1-2-3 by Shirley’s Preschool Activities using the code ccblogspa. 25% off …Read the Rest
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