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Curriculum Choice Review: Dover Coloring Books

  We have many, many Dover coloring books, and they have changed the life of at least one of our children.  Miss 12 spends hours carefully coloring fashions of the past.  She has learned so much history simply from studying the pictures and reading the captions.  In fact, when she looks at paintings she can […]

Homeschool Crew Review: Graphics Toolbox

  “A picture speaks a thousand words.”  Shouldn’t your pictures speak your words?    This is the premise of Graphics Toolbox, a program that allows you to make amazing graphics easily.  With this program you can manipulate photos, easily cut out parts, rotate them, fix backgrounds, add ribbons and text in any color you choose, […]

Homeschool Crew Review: abcteach

  We’re not a worksheet kind of family.  At all.  So when we were offered a month’s free membership with abcteach, I wasn’t excited. I thought it was just some massive, boring worksheet factory.  Dutifully I began to explore the site so that I could write a review… and what I found thrilled me.  There’s […]

Homeschool Crew Review: Nature’s Friend and Study Guide

    If you love exploring God’s beautiful world and want to share this passion with your children, you’ve got to check this out.  Nature Friend is a colourful magazine whose goal is to help ‘families explore the wonders of God’s creation.’     This high-quality magazine, free of advertising, is full of lovely photos, engaging nature […]

Review: Primary Language Lessons and Intermediate Language Lessons

              Even though we have been using them for almost a decade, there are two little hard back books that still give me joy almost every time I open them.  Primary Language Lessons and Intermediate Language Lessons, both by Emma Serl, are full of wonderful yet inexpensive language lessons […]