My husband wants our kids to be able to think. He especially wants them to be able to think critically about all the information and ideas they are being fed every day. That’s why we emphasize logic in our homeschool. We’ve used a wide variety of resources over the years. While we use other materials […]
Reviews: Curriciulum Choice
Review: The Way Things Work, Animated
For years we, like many homeschoolers, have enjoyed David Macaulay’s book The Way Things Work. Recently we discovered that portions of this book have been animated! The movies give you both the science and the big woolly mammoths of the book. Originally produced for the BBC, this set of 26 videos, each 13 minutes long, […]
Review: Type Write Touch Typing and Typing Practice Pages
Besides basic reading, writing, and arithmetic, one of the most useful skills your children can learn is typing or keyboarding. If they learn this skill well, they will benefit for the rest of their lives. The program we are currently using is better than any other one we’ve used. Type Write Touch Typing covers the […]
Review: Math On DVD Pre-Calculus by Steven Gottlieb
There’s always a lot to learning math. New ideas. Funny symbols. Last year’s concepts, almost forgotten, but suddenly important again. And, above all, radically new ways of thinking, especially for high school math. Because it takes many exposures to these new ideas to really understand them, your teens will benefit from supplementary math resources no […]
Review: Motel of the Mysteries by David Macaulay
Everyone who studies ancient history relies on archeological finds. That makes sense, and it’s fascinating to see all the artifacts in books or, even better, in museums. It’s also fascinating to learn about ancient people’s cultures, religion, and daily life from objects found in ruins. But wait, do the objects really tell us the story…or […]