Favorite Writing Curricula

It is hard to find good writing curriculum for your home school. There is a wealth of grammar, spelling, vocabulary, and phonics workbooks out there to choose from, but teaching children to write is a greater challenge.It goes beyond memorization and recall to processing information and communicating that information clearly so that others can process [...]

 
Total Access to Grace

Isn’t it great to know that God offers us Total Access to His Grace. We moms can only to do so much, but God’s Grace enables us to do exactly what we need to be doing, as long as we will turn to Him. As a homeschool wife and mother, I am responsible for caring [...]

 
You Can't Export What You Don't Import

Imagine you live on a tiny island and it’s your job to bring in money from off the island. The best way to do this is to export something produced on the island. Look around you for resources to make something to export. There is no livestock, no large scale farming, nothing valuable to mine [...]

Nov 152009
 

Personalities affect homeschooling.  Interested in how personalities affect homeschooling?  Here are four articles that explain how personalities affect our teaching, our children’s learning, and what happens when personalities collide.  Enjoy!   What Homeschooling Personality are You? Part I (Sanguines and Melancholies) What Homeschooling Personality are You?  Part II (Cholerics and Plegmatics) What Personalities are You [...]

Flexibility

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Oct 272009
 
Flexibility

I have these great drinking cups that I got each time I purchased a large soda at the deli in my local grocery store (Publix). They are plastic with a lid which locks on so that they don’t spill. It’s great because on any given day I can have my three pet birds, my four [...]

 
Apologia's Exploring Creation with Biology Review

Christ-centered with an emphasis on the wonder of God’s living creatures, we have used Apologia’s Exploring Creation with Biology in our home for years.  In fact, Shine will be using this textbook next year in ninth grade for Biology.  I was thrilled to receive another copy of Exploring Creation with Biology by Dr. Jay L. [...]

 
Apologia's Exploring Creation with General Science Review

Christ-centered with an emphasis on the wonder of God’s Creation, Apologia textbooks are always a favorite of mine!  I received Exploring Creation with General Scienceby Dr. jay L. Wile to review and was thrilled.  One more Apologia textbook to add to my growing collection.  I have the all the high school textbooks, zoology, botany, and [...]

 
Math Mammouth Review!

Math Mammoth is an inexpensive way to do math!  Maria Miller is the author of the Math Mammoth series. Her desire is to make math simple and easy to understand.  Maria has tried to explain each math concept so simply that even homeschooling moms can “get it” by reading the book along with her child.  She [...]

 
Diaglogue # 1 on the American Gold Standard!

I received this email from American Vision and thought I would pass it on.  I am in favor of returning to the gold standard. DIALOGUE #1 ON THE AMERICAN GOLD STANDARD Date 2/17/2009 • Issue 54 In reading any dialogue, you know in advance that the guy asking the questions is the guy who wrote [...]

 
Math Tutor DVDs Review

“I’d love to homeschool, but I’m scared to teach my kids math,” is a cry of despair I have heard through the years. Now, there is a solution for those who would rather have someone else teach their children math, but don’t want to take them to one more outside activity!  We really need daily help [...]

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