Geese and Ducks Hi, I’m Liora. I’ve been learning a lot about ducks and geese, and I wanted to share what I learned with you. Did you know that geese hardly ever eat bugs? They mainly eat grass and weeds, but they sometimes eat worms that are lying around. Their very protective over the nest…
We’ve been using notebooking pages for years because we love them! Notebooking Pages is what hooked me – they’re so stylish, easy to use, and the kids enjoy doing their schoolwork more with them. Right now, you can get these Easter pages free!Easter Notebooking Pages More Easter and Spring Resources: Easter and Spring Handwriting Copywork…
Heritage Grove Academy’s Awesome Homeschool Planner Everything You Need for a Successful School Year 300 Pages of Charts, Calendars, Forms, Student Worksheets & Lots More! Our homeschool planner has grown up so much over the years! We started with just a hundred pages over ten years ago, and now it’s grown to nearly 300 pages…
Thanksgiving Copywork Pages – Poetry, Bible Verses, Writing Prompts, and Seasonal Design Pages Copywork pages are a lot more fun when they’re relevant to seasons and subjects that we’re studying in our homeschool. I love that the kids learn valuable grammar skills and spelling while practicing their penmanship. This is a great set because it…
Are homeschoolers really unsocialized and strange? What makes us so different? Homeschoolers are often painted up in this little box of being weird, different, unsocialized, and strange. I think we should define that. Let’s start by looking at a few definitions. For the sake of argument and not using “outdated definitions” – posted are…
If you’re not having fun and completely enjoying any of your homeschool subjects – you’re doing it wrong! Do you hate teaching math? Then how can you expect your child to learn it, let alone enjoy learning it? If you’re struggling with teaching a certain subject, or you just “don’t want to” then you need…
Are you spending too much time on laundry? Nail down laundry in less than 10 minutes – from a household of seven. Seriously, why does laundry have to be such a daunting task? When I started a family over 20 years ago, I used to have trouble keep up with laundry too. Part of it…
The Easy Method We Love Keeping our kids’ schoolwork organized hasn’t always been easy for us. With all these digital downloads for homeschool work it got a little harder and I needed to find an easier way to keep things organized. We found something that really works for us. Nothing has ever been lost or…
Art with Big Kids – Paintbrush Stage Around the ages of 7-10 is when a child can really start to show what they can do with Art and can really master a great many concepts that will be of great value to them for the rest of their education. And you don’t have to…
Young Children – Pencil Stage As we said earlier we’re going to call the age group from around 3-6 years the Pencil Stage. This is when young children can grasp a pencil well and form intentional lines, circles and where they start to form their letters. This is a crucial age for children to…
Crayon Stage – Babies and Toddlers Recommended supplies to introduce and why: Crayons – large crayons are ok to try at first if you like, but smaller ones are actually better for fine motor skills and moving into the Pencil Stage. I tried the oversized crayons for a couple of the kids when they were…
In our post Using Art in Homeschool – Why? we discussed why we should teach art in homeschool – but in order to use art in homeschooling your kids need to have a basis in skill and this isn’t always easy for non-artist parents, mainly because they think they need to be artists to…
One of the most intimidating subjects for homeschool parents to teach is art, and it actually happens to be one of the easiest to teach and most valuable subjects for children to learn. Many parents think that you have to be an artist to teach art skills and this couldn’t be further from the truth….
An excerpt from our Homeschool Planner What’s in the Planner Overview & How We Use It Too Many Homeschool Pages for You to Choose From! What I do first is make notes from our curriculum – or whatever books we’re using and the Year-At-A-Glance Calendars. Then I transfer that information into my individual Subject Objective Pages. …
From Our Homeschool Planner – Excerpt Part Three Homeschool Planner Overview Calendars, Charts, Forms, Letters, Evaluations, Pages & Pages – Oh, My! Throughout my time home educating I’ve gotten and used several different types of planners, forms and charts to use for organizing and record keeping. I always found myself wanting something a little different, either…
Excerpt from our Homeschool Planner Our Home Education Schedule Create a Flexible Schedule to Keep Your Homeschool On Track For us another way to de-stress and thoroughly enjoy our homeschool life again – even with the added children, was that we started to school year-round. At first it was to “make-up” things missed during babies…
An excerpt from our Homeschool Planner Our Home Education Plan Homeschooling is Easy When You Have a Good Plan I had decided when I became pregnant with my first that we were going to homeschool and God convicted me to do so when she was ready for Kindergarten even when the “fear” tried to convince…
This is a beautiful set of copywork pages comes in 3 separate books: Manuscript Print D’Nealian Slant Traditional Cursive A Handwriting Book of Prayers The Lord’s Prayer – Psalm 23 – Prayers & Poems Makes a Bible History Study & Penmanship Supplement! This beautiful set of prayer copywork books give you 30 pages each for…
Recently we purchased the set of three What Really Happened? books from Terri Johnson to add to our history program. We use MapTrek, which we love, and I thought these historical, biographical fiction stories would be a great addition as well. I am so glad I got them – we really love them as well!…
French Curriculum and Supplements Over the years we’ve tried many different language programs for our French class and have gotten some good basics, but we were really lacking in the grammar and usage. I had searched through many different curriculums and we finally decided on First Start French from Memoria Press. We’ve been using…
Notebooking Pages ~ All Subjects ~ Homeschooling Since we first discovered notebooking pages we have had so much fun making notebooks for our homeschool studies over the years! These awesome pages from Notebooking Pages have been an invaluable asset for every subject and every grade level. Through the use of notebooking pages our kids have been…
Handwriting Copywork – Manuscript Print, D’Nealian Slant, and Cursive We’ve always felt that handwriting is a valuable skill to teach the kids – I don’t buy into any of the talk about the modern world and how some feel it’s unnecessary. Not to be a pessimist, but electronics could all be wiped out tomorrow and…
Are you looking for that one resource that will tie everything in your history course together? One that you can use for all grades? You need MapTrek. What better way to learn Geography than right along with History? And using maps with History helps many students visualize events so that they retain the information better….
One of the books I got for the kids to read was Magnus Kir by Christian author Dean Hardy. I personally was unable to put it down – and cannot wait for the rest of the family to read it. I found it captivating and thought provoking as I followed Zack through his adventure. …
When you’re first getting started with homeschooling it’s easy to be confused – whether you’re pulling your child out of public school or you’re just getting your little ones started. There are a lot of myths about homeschooling because it’s all custom work. No matter how you decide to educate your kids – it’s…
President’s Day Resources President’s Day has always been fun for me since homeschooling because I always enjoy an excuse to read one of my favorite books – When Washington Crossed the Delaware and do lots of fun activities with the kids. Some years we do a whole President’s Day unit beginning in February and other…
Our twins just turned 2! Yay! I’m so excited that we’ve made it this far, and at the same time, oh, the fun we’ve had! Most of the true difficulty has been with, and because of, my own health, but thankfully my husband and older girls are a huge help. The big problem…
This is a question I’ve seen a lot of parents asking when they see all the cool learning apps available or they hear about how great they are from someone in their homeschool group. My answer is no! But… there’s always a but… if you already have one for business or personal use,…
Baby Food Grinder Making your own baby food is can be so much fun and there are so many ways you can give your baby added nutrition that you can’t find in canned baby food. In addition you can also save money by making some or all of your own baby food at home. …
This is something that I received as an email that I thought really puts things in perspective. I have no idea who should get credit for this, but it’s fantastic! Beauty of Math! 1 x 8 + 1 = 9 12 x 8 + 2 = 98 123 x 8 + 3 = 987 1234…
