It’s time for the Weird, Unsocialized Homeschoolers’ Top Picks for Third and Fourth Grade. If you missed them, you can check out my picks for Kindergarten and First and Second Grade. Bible Study. I failed to mention my picks for Bible study last week, but they’re actually the same all the way through high school,…
This week I offer you the Weird, Unsocialized Homeschoolers’ Top Picks for 1st and 2nd grade. In case you missed it, last week I offered my top picks for Kindergarten. You may notice a few favorites popping up again, but I’ve added several that weren’t on my Kindergarten list. Math. Maybe I should stop right…
When you tell a story, you’re really supposed to save the most exciting part until last, right? Well, just consider me a bad story-teller then, because, I’ve gotta start with what happened this morning…though I’m not sure that “exciting” is the right word for it. A little background, first. Thursday afternoon, I noticed a leak…
No, I haven’t fallen off the face of the earth; I’ve just been really, really busy. Some of you may have noticed that I didn’t get the NSV post up this week. You can feel free to share your NSVs in the comments on this post, if you like. How are you doing with the…
I love Bright Ideas Press. We’ve used the Christian Kids Explore science series for several years. It was from Bright Ideas Press’ Hands-On Geography book that I got the idea for our homeschool group’s annual Around the World Day. I was ecstatic when they sent me not one, but two products to review: Young Scholar’s…
As many of you know, my oldest is an 8th grader this year and we’re using her 8th grade year to practice, plan, and prepare for high school. An invaluable planning tool has basically fallen in my lap — College Prep Genius. College Prep Genius is a complete SAT, PSAT/NMSQT prep program consisting of a…
I know many people’s local curriculum fairs have already passed, but ours is coming up this weekend, so I thought I’d share some of my favorite tried-and-true curriculum fair survival tips. 1. Wear comfortable shoes. This is definitely one of those days when comfort should come before fashion. This is a tennis-shoes-with-Capri-pants kind of day. (For…
It’s time for one of my favorite posts of the year: our next school year’s curriculum list! As homeschoolers, don’t we all enjoy taking a peek at what others are using in the upcoming year? I may add to or take away from our list as we get into full swing, but, for now, here…
I was in Walmart today and I noticed that they’ve already started stocking the back-to-school aisle. I love this time of year! It’s like Christmas for a homeschool mom. I usually do all of my back-to-school shopping the same week of our local curriculum fair in late July so that I’m all stocked up and…
Ah, thank goodness it’s Friday! I am ready for a breather. It’s been a busy week, though I’m not terribly sure what we’ve done. We didn’t have any exciting projects this week. We studied volcanoes in science and I had planned to let the kids make salt dough volcanoes and do baking soda/vinegar eruptions. However,…
1. “If you didn’t homeschool, you’d have more time to clean house.” Um, yeah, because having a spotless house is the highest priority. 2. A Wal-mart cashier upon noticing my kids and I all wearing our matching “unsocialized homeschooler” t-shirts: “Oh, do you homeschool?” Nope. We got such a great deal on these shirts that…
Remember the Sabbath day by keeping it holy. Six days you shall labor and do all your work, but the seventh day is a Sabbath to the LORD your God. On it you shall not do any work, neither you, nor your son or daughter, nor your manservant or maidservant, nor your animals, nor the…
1. Probably my all-time favorite movie, based solely on the fact that I can watch it over and over again is While You Were Sleeping. Some close runners up are all the original Star Wars movies, As Good As It Gets, and My Cousin Vinnie (except, I find it harder, as I’ve gotten older, to…
Teaching a child how to write well seems to be yet another area of struggle for many homeschooling parents. Once again, this doesn’t have to be the case. While some kids have a natural talent in this area, many more do not. To me, writing isn’t an area to stress over or to push. I…
People often ask me about what we use for language arts. Our “writing center” is basically our language arts curriculum. I first heard about learning centers in Mary Hood’s book, The Relaxed Home School. This post contains affiliate links. See full disclosure policy for more details. I have recently revamped our writing center. I had…
