by Jenn on April 26, 2012
I like to open up my homeschool closet to share materials I find helpful in our homeschool journey, it’s been a while since I’ve shared… Of interest to me lately are these nifty Math workbooks by Flashkids. After a slightly confusing lesson on decimals -for test prep purposes, I went to our local Barnes & [...]
by Jenn on February 16, 2011
So much of what I do is pieced together. I would love to be able to say that we’ve used such-n-such curriculum for so many years. I’d love the safe feeling of having one curriculum to fulfill all our needs; one program to follow year after year-insuring no learning gaps. I’d love to be that [...]
by Jenn on December 7, 2009
Headsprout Phonics Review- Headsprouts Early reading program is an online phonics program designed to teach your child to read, in a fun-interactive manner without a lot of teacher (mom) input.Yeah! -A phonics program for the mom who has already taught phonics 3 times now…the slightly overwhelmed mom/the tired mom/the A.D.D. mom/the mom who is tired [...]
by Jenn on October 14, 2008
There is a group of dedicated homeschool moms who participate in aweekly Homeschool report on their blogs. (You can follow the link to Trivium Academy’s blog and see a list there. I’ve always wanted to do it, but I am just not all that together- usually. Here is my offering, a few days late- they [...]
by Jenn on October 14, 2008
This is the second half of my week’s report, for the week of Oct. 5-10th. go *here to see the first part, which includes work all the children did together and the work of the youngest 3. The older students (Josie-11 and Meg-13): *Math-U-See: Josie finished up a 2 page unit test for lessons 1 [...]
by Jenn on October 3, 2008
Flipping through my Tapestry of Grace curriculum guide, I noticed that we would be coming up on The Odyssey in a few weeks. I am very much looking forward to this, and I already had planned on checking the library for The Adventures of Odysseus by Barefoot Books- to read with my 3 youngest students. [...]
by Jenn on September 30, 2008
Time for Homeschool Show and Tell! We just started a nifty program calledEnglish from the Roots Up. This program teaches Greek and Latin vocabulary words pretty painlessly. All you need is the book, index cards,and a box to put your index cards in, but you can also purchase the pre-made word cards. I purchased just [...]