What happens when writer decides to homeschool? She starts looking into creative ways to help her children master their math skills. With a 3rd grader and a 5th grader, I know my days teaching them math are numbered. So in addition to great curricula (more on these in another post), I’ve relied on some clever […]
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Awkward by Svetlana Chmakova
Awkward by Svetlana Chmakova is another graphic novel that I selected to see if I could offer the kids an alternative reading experience. I liked this novel, it’s 210 pages and had a good moral to the story. Basically we have a student, Peppi, again who is starting at a new school and has all […]
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Island of the Blue Dolphins by Scott O’Dell
Island of the Blue Dolphins by Scott O’Dell was a book suggested by one of the moms in our coop for the kids to read. This was one book I am glad I pre-read. This book is not a good read for the sensitive animal/vegetarian child that I have. If my child would have read […]
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Animas – C.R. Grey
Animas – C.R. Grey Our newest book that we are reading is Animas. It was one of several recommended books on another blog. I took a gamble by not pre-reading it and assigned it to all the kids, however, in only a few chapters I knew the book would be fine. If you have read the Harry […]
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Ashes to Ashes, Dust to Dust
Ashes to Ashes, Dust to Dust by Melissa Walker. As most of you know I love to read, but just don’t have the time to read all the books I want as I pre-read mostly all of Lightning’s* book so there is not a ton of time for me to read an adult book. Well, […]
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Choosing curriculum
Choosing Curriculum. I made the plunge and I am going to homeschool. How do I decide what curriculum I use for each subject? What subjects do I teach? I already am homeschooling but need to switch curriculum, what do I switch to? These are all questions I think every homeschooler has asked. I know when […]
Read MoreBrain Chase – A Summer Learning Challenge
Brain Chase – A Summer Learning Challenge We love having the opportunity to share new and exciting discoveries with you – especially when we feel like we’ve found something truly unique and useful. This is how we both immediately felt about Brain Chase. I (Jean) first discovered it in a blog, and after that, it […]
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Math Curriculum
Math Curriculum I have been dreading writing this post because I do not know what to do about a math curriculum. We have been using Teaching Textbooks for a few years now. Teaching Textbooks gives a short lesson before each chapter, then you have some sample questions and then you practice the material. All of […]
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History/Social Studies Curriculum
History/Social Studies Curriculum Now I would probably stay with our current curriculum, Story of the World, but Lighting is over it. It isn’t that she doesn’t like the curriculum she just wants something different. It seems we get about two years out of each curricula before she asks to switch. The problem that I see […]
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Language Arts Curriculum
This will be the first of a few posts as I try to select new curriculum for Lightning. This weekend is the homeschooling conference in Florida where I will get a hands on look at each curriculum I am considering so I will either update each post or write a new post with my findings. […]
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