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Reviews: Curriculum

Review: Youth Virtue Journal

  The Youth Virtue Journal is a slim ring-bound workbook with a huge goal: to help teens choose virtues. Working with a mentor, teens will learn how to be attentive, content, forgiving, gentle, helpful, honest, obedient, perseverant and respectful. The booklet contains a form for parental input as well. Each of the nine chapters contains […]

Review: English Literature for Boys and Girls by H.E. Marshall

Ambleside Online has influenced our family in many ways, not the least by introducing us to great books. One that we’ve been using for many years is English Literature for Boys and Girls by H.E. Marshall, written in 1909. We are blessed to have a century-old copy for our teens, complete with roughly cut pages […]

Review: The Kids Can Press French and English Word Book

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 […]

Review: Chosen by God by R.C. Sproul

For years we’ve been using Lifeviews and The Consequences of Ideas by R. C. Sproul to show our teens how modern life is shaped by philosophy.  Although these books are somewhat scattered, they clearly trace the ungodly origins and development of many ideas that we almost take for granted.  They have been very helpful in […]

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 […]