Learning sight words is one of those necessary components to teaching reading. If you don’t already have learning sight words as a part of your phonics instruction, then now is the perfect time to get started. Did you know that over 80% of the words your children read in their literature come from the Dolch …
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Hold your hats my friends, for the next two days, you have the opportunity to get all of your Christmas shopping out of the way with Amazon’s Steal of the Day deals, because it’s Amazon Prime Day! or “days” that is. When is Amazon Prime Day? Deals begin on Tuesday 12 am PST (3 …
My children’s handwriting is atrocious. Like seriously- all of theirs. As a former teacher and homeschooling mom, it’s rather embarrassing. I’m not sure exactly where we went wrong with their handwriting. But at some point I must have thrown the handwriting curriculum out the window in favor of more “important” subjects. Well now I have …
For the last few months I have been seeing ads for Smartick math pop up in my newsfeed and hearing the online program mentioned here and there in homeschool groups, and I became really intrigued. The program guarantees progress in math with just 15 minutes a day! Hmmmm. Our darling youngest will do anything to …
For the last several weeks we’ve been learning all about Frederick Chopin using Music Appreciation Book 2: for the Middle Grades from Zeezok Publishing. This program will introduce students to seven of the world’s greatest composers through music, stories, and interesting tidbits about each composers life. I have made it no secret that my music …
Simply Music is a self study program that can be worked on at home and at your own pace. If you have ever wanted to learn the piano but didn’t want to take expensive lessons, than this program might be the answer you have been looking for. Madelyn our seven year old has been working …
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The Heart Changer is the debut book from author Jarm Del Boccio. We had the privilege to obtain a copy of it for review. My middle daughter who is definitely our voracious reader grabbed it up quickly and asked to be the first to read it. The Heart Changer is historical fiction set in biblical times. …
We really enjoyed using My First Report: Solar System from Hewitt Homeschooling Resources with Maddie, our first grader daughter. She has always been fascinated with space so I knew that this would be the perfect unit to work through as a fun end of year activity. If you are trying to work the entire unit …
After 15 years living in our home, we are packing up and moving across town to a home that will be a better fit for our family. We are over the moon excited about this next chapter, but of course that means that our days have been filled with house hunting, house selling, packing, cleaning… …
I’m kind of a history nerd. I love… LOVE history. It was always my favorite subject in school, except for that one 10th grade year when my teacher almost ruined it for me with his less than enthusiastic love of the subject. But one of my history professors in college doubly made up for it …
