“The Day the World Went Wacky” by Janine Suter is a new book by Master Books publishing that teaches kids about the Fall of Man. The books starts out from a child’s perspective. He is in the dentist chair with a cavity, and he questions why God made pain. If God made the world, and [...]
We recently reviewed Math Rider, a computerized math game for kids as part of the TOS homeschool Crew. Math Rider was created by Thomas Brand, a software architect, when his two elementary aged girls were struggling with their math at school. Math Rider is an intelligent computer game that allows kids to practice math drills [...]
I started playing piano in the 1st grade, and basically played it right up until I graduated from high school. After that, I would play every time I went home to my parent’s house, but I wasn’t actively taking lessons anymore. I now have a piano of my own, but don’t find too much time [...]
Looking to teach your kids about wild animals? Want a beautiful all-in-one-resource at your fingertips? Look what fell in my lap courtesy of New Leaf Publishing Group and Master Books! The first thing that catches your eye about this great hardcover book is the cool holographic tiger image on the front cover. Inside this book [...]
R.E.A.L. Homeschool Spanish was created by Dr. Karen Williamson-Coria, who was a language teacher at the high school and college level for 23 years, and then wanted to teach a language to her 3 children in a homeschool setting. The recommended time to do this is 20-30 minutes a day for 5 days a week. [...]
“A is for Adam” is a neat new teaching resource by Ken & Mally Ham. Using each letter of the alphabet, they teach from Genesis beginning with the Beginning and going through Adam and Eve, Cain & Able, the Great Flood and the Tower of Babel. This 10×10 books is designed to be free-standing with [...]
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 [...]
I’ve always loved languages. I learned Korean and English concurrently as a small child, but unfortunately my parents dropped the Korean when I started school so I wouldn’t get confused. In middle school and high school I took both French and Spanish, and I even tried taking some Korean language classes. Recently, my 6-year-old expressed [...]
We were given the opportunity to review the Reading Game as part of the TOS Crew Review team. The Reading Game was created by Kenneth Hodkinson, who noticed that his 4-year-old granddaughter was ready to read. The game has 6 storybooks, each of which has 6 corresponding sets of cards. The series goes in the [...]
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 [...]
