We love crafts of any kind in our house! I’ve loved seeing the progression of the kids’ drawings over the years, and I try to promote creativity as much as possible (rather than uniform-looking crafts or having them make things the “right” way). We generally craft for the joy of crafting, or to help bring [...]
We were given the downloadable version of the Math Mammoth Grade 1 Complete Work text (Light Blue Series) to review as part of the TOS Homeschool Crew Review team. Math Mammoth is created by Maria Miller, and she offers the following options: A full curriculum for grades 1-6; Worktexts by topic for grades 1-6—you get [...]
We received access to the Keyboard Town Pals web-based typing program for 30-days as part of the TOS Homeschool Crew Review Team. When I first watched the demos for this, I was afraid that it would be too “young” for my 6-year-old in its presentation. (I wasn’t sure how he would react to the giant [...]
As a fairly new homeschooling mom, I feel like the onus is on me to constantly PROVE that we are learning something. One of the things that I admit to stressing out about is teaching my son to read. My boy tends to have perfectionistic tendencies, and gets frustrated very easily. If he can’t figure [...]
One of the things that I love about the internet is all of the great ideas you can find from other homeschooling parents and even public school teachers. There are a TON of great blogs out there that have bucket-loads of ideas for you to choose from. The downside to having all of this information [...]
Ugh. We had a tough day today. One where I was counting down the hours until bedtime…..like this morning. (and no, my kids don’t nap. Their biological makeup dictates that they stop napping as soon as they turn 2….unless we happen to be in the car at just the right time of the day and [...]
My soon-to-be 6-year-old is CRAZY about Star Wars! The past couple of days that I’ve told him that it’s time to do some school work, he has specifically requested Star Wars school work. It turns out that the search for Star Wars Printables turns up very few resources aside from coloring pages. We did a [...]
My son finds tons of “science projects” on his own if I don’t plan something out for him – and oftentimes even when I DO have something else planned! Today he came inside to tell me that he’s studying bird poop. Ummm, what??!! (at least he had it in a ziplock baggy….but I still instructed [...]
When I first dreamed up this post last week, it was with the intent of being a really cool resource for homeschool moms. Making your own worm farm. Pretty neat, right? I was going to show the cool pictures that we took: and talk about how we tapped a metal shovel on a piece of [...]
Ever wonder what the heck your kids are thinking? How they see things? Here’s a quick and easy tip for you – give them a camera. Seriously. My 5-year-old knows how to use our camera, and he does a pretty good job with it. Sure, we find the odd pictures of random objects that were [...]
