Almanzo Wilder: Life before Laura – Product Review
Dean Butler, the gentleman who played the role of Almanzo Wilder in Little House on the Prairie, in conjunction with Legacy Documentaries has recently released two new DVDs for your family’s viewing...
View ArticleCreative Learning on the Farm
In school, we study using textbooks and software. On the farm, we work with our hands and many different tools. However, the best learning happens when we break away and just use what is around us and...
View ArticleStruggling with Math Curriculum?
If there is one subject that I really try to be consistent with, it would be math. Because the skills taught build upon one another from lesson to lesson and from year to year, gaps can be created by...
View ArticleLiterature Study Units to Accent Your Homeschool
A big part of our homeschooling is the use of great literature. Sometimes these are books from the list of great classics and sometimes they are books about individuals that will inspire and motivate...
View ArticleUnit Study for Geography and Missions
My boys and I recently had a chance to review a new resource out by Bonnie Rose Hudson entitled, Asia: Its People and History. There are some resources that you use as a homeschool mom that even when...
View ArticleGetting the Most Out of Your Homeschool Convention
Homschool conventions can be a wonderful blessing, but they can have their pitfalls too if you aren’t prepared. I am so glad that you have joined me on this post about some basics of enjoying and...
View ArticleGo Science Series 2 DVDs ~ Product Review
Our family does not school all summer long, but it is nice to be able to incorporate some learning on those rainy days or times when you hear, “Mom, I’m bored. There’s nothing to do.” Enter from stage...
View ArticleWriteShop Review for Your Reluctant Writer
When I talk with homeschool moms, many of them share how they just do not feel able to effectively teach writing to their children. Some cite that they are not good writers themselves. Some are weery...
View ArticleKeeping Your Eyes on the Big Picture
Our topic for this first day of the Back to Homeschool Blog Hop is Keeping Your Eyes on the Big Picture. Many times, this is much easier said than done. I remember as a small child being asked what I...
View ArticleThe Myth of Fitting It All In
Several years ago, friends visited us while on furlough during missionary service in an area near Siberia in Russia. Over dinner one night, we began asking them all kinds of questions about life in...
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