Looking ahead to my children’s futures, I don’t want to see them saddled with debt, living hand-to-mouth, fighting about money with their spouses, needing two incomes to survive, and unable to support their local church and other worthy causes. And I’m sure you don’t want that for your children either. Now, sometimes such financial strain […]
Reviews: Curriculum
Review: SpellQuizzer
Some parts of homeschooling are repetitive, necessary, and, let’s face it, just plain draining. Dictating spelling lists comes to mind. I don’t do much of that anymore, though. Instead, our family uses SpellQuizzer, a simple, streamlined, and very effective computer spelling program. For several months, my younger girls (8 and 10) would sit down at […]
Review: A Pioneer Story by Barbara Greenwood
Here’s one book no homeschooling family should miss: A Pioneer Story: The Daily Life of a Canadian Family in 1840. It combines heartwarming stories of a busy pioneer family with the background information and hands-on activities of a unit study. Truly, it is a winning combination. You can read the rest of my review over […]
Is this Course Grade 11, Grade 12, or AP?
A question came up while I was preparing my review of Apologia high school science: “Since the advanced Apologia courses are AP level, at what point has a student finished a ‘normal’ grade 12 course?” (AP stands for Advanced Placement level, representing courses that can be used by high school students to be credited for […]
Review: A Bunny, a Case and a World of Taste
This delightful and informative romp through the world, written by young Hayley Nevitt, is full of recipes from around the globe, collected during the travels of Serena, the word’s foremost food critic. Long-haired Serena’s mission is to find the best recipes from around the world to be used in the world-famous Nevitt restaurants that are […]