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Homeschool Crew Review: ‘Numbers and Counting’ and ‘Basic Math Word Problems’ from Math Tutor

      One of the Math Tutor products we received for the Homeschool Review Crew was the Young Minds Numbers and Counting DVD.  This is an absolutely wonderful product!  The photography is beautiful, full of color and nature.  The music (Bach, Pachelbel, Vivaldi, and more) suits it perfectly.  What a blissful environment for a […]

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: MathScore

Wow, it’s a good thing our family likes math because we have reviewed a lot of math programs this year!  Among all these, MathScore stands out because it’s a drill program that’s all about math, instead of being mathematical entertainment.  Entertainment is fine in its place, but a good, solid math drill program that goes […]

Homeschool Crew Review: The Tortoise and the Hare by Maestro Classics

    Our family eagerly anticipated getting The Tortoise and the Hare by Maestro Classics  for the Homeschool Review Crew.  We all love both classical music and Aesop’s fables, so this review promised to be fun.    When, finally, the package arrived, we sat down to listen to it immediately.  Having expected a simple fable set […]