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Review: Seterra

As soon as Miss 12 finished the school year, she dove into a new project. She now spends hours with a globe every day, playing Seterra, a geography fact game. Her self-imposed goal is to get 100% on every single Seterra challenge…. So, what is Seterra? Honestly, it is the best geography fact resource I’ve […]

Review: Presidential Penmanship

  Every week I ponder some of the wisest sayings of the US Presidents. Here’s quote that ended up on my desk this morning, in painstakingly neat handwriting: It is the duty of nations as well as of men to own their dependence upon the overruling power of God.—Abraham Lincoln Yes, Miss 11 is learning handwriting, […]

Review: Faith Like Potatoes

Farmer Angus Buchan, extremely stressed, moves his family from trouble in Zambia to trouble in South Africa.  Angus tries to settle onto his new farm but he struggles, falling apart and constantly losing his temper, until his sweet wife is in despair and wants to get tranquilizers for him.  Then she convinces him to attend […]

Review: Wambu Trilogy by Piet Prins

As they hunt together deep in the jungles of New Guinea,  Wambu learns jungle craft and the ancient stories of spirits and magic from his father.  But Wambu has discovered the power of the white man’s magic from a former villager, Hassewiets.  When he and his father find a little fugitive girl, Sirja who is a […]

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 […]