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Homeschool Crew Review: KinderBach

  KinderBach.  Even the name sounded appealing to our ears.  You see, our family loves classical music, especially J. S. Bach, and the idea of KinderBach was intriguing.   Well, we started week 1, lesson 1 and soon discovered that this program has nothing at all to do with J.S. Bach.  Rather, KinderBach is an online […]

Homeschool Crew Review: factsfirst

   Our Little Misses can sled and craft, play dolls and roam with the dogs, read and have wild foosball games, and do many more such things.   Sometimes, however,  they just want to play a computer game.  Then they often gravitate to factsfirst, a math program that is almost a game.  It meets my wish […]

Homeschool Crew Review: My Access! Home Edition

      Writing is a crucial skill, but it’s hard to be consistent about teaching it. What’s more, the burden of marking everyone’s writing overwhelms me.  This year, thanks to My Access! Home Edition, our children are spending much more time writing.  What’s more, they also get instant feedback and individualized instruction from the […]

Homeschool Crew Review: Quarter Mile Math

  When I found out that the Homeschool Review Crew  would be reviewing The Quarter Mile Math programs, I was thrilled.  Many, many years ago I’d read Mary Pride’s glowing recommendation of this math drill program and since then it has been on my mental wish list.   Summary The Quarter Mile Math Program  is a motivating […]

Homeschool Crew Review: Web Design for Kids (…and Curious Adults)

  Before I began blogging in April, the workings of the online world were a total mystery to me.  In the process of setting up my blog, I accidentally bumped into some HTML code.  It scared me.       (An aside for my fellow non-expert computer users: HTML is the language of web site design.  […]