My goal for elementary school French is to have the children spend about 10 minutes a day, every school day, exposed to spoken French. I want them to become familiar with vocabulary, the sound of the language, and some of its sentence structures. Most of all, I want them to enjoy it and feel a [...]
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Review: The Kids Can Press French and English Phrase Book
Welcome to the cheerful world of Rose and Jordan who celebrate Grandma’s birthday, go to school, shop, visit cousins, build a sand castle, enjoy a farm, and finally fall asleep…in French and English. Each two page spread in this beautiful 40-page book covers one activity, giving French phrases with English translation underneath them. By the end [...]
Review: Science Roots by Nancy Paula Hasseler
When your teens begin to study biology, they are suddenly faced with an overwhelming amount of vocabulary to learn. Many modules in our teens’ biology course contain dozens of new words and that is what makes biology so difficult. In Science Roots: Latin and Greek Roots for Biology and Life Science, Nancy Hasseler has provided [...]
Curriculum Choice Review: French is Fun
In grade 7, after years of low-key, informal French, our children start French is Fun 1. This inexpensive textbook from AMSCO works well for us, helping the children consolidate all their earlier knowledge and extending it dramatically…. To read the rest of this review please visit Curriculum Choice.
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 [...]
