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Homeschool Crew Review: Mathletics

  Mathletics by 3P Learning is a motivational online, world-wide math program  for K-12 that includes competitive, curricular, and game components.  Its aim is to inspire a delight in mathematics and to improve students’ performance.   Live Mathletics—Competition Live Mathletics is cool.  Our children were introduced to it when they participated in World Math Day […]

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: Lapbooks from A Journey Through Learning

      We have rarely made lapbooks in all our years of learning together.  To me they have always seemed to be vague, messy, time-consuming projects, but A Journey Through Learning, a lapbook company, disagrees:  “A lapbook is a FUN, HANDS-ON and CREATIVE way for your child to record information that he/she has learned […]

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.  […]