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Homeschool Crew Review: Jean Welles Worship Guitar Class

      Although I love the mellow sound of a guitar being strummed by the fire or under a tree on a sunny day, I never considered buying one for the children.  The learning programs seemed to involve secular, modern music and I’m not interested in immersing my children (or myself) in that.   […]

Homeschool Crew Review: The Tortoise and the Hare by Maestro Classics

    Our family eagerly anticipated getting The Tortoise and the Hare by Maestro Classics  for the Homeschool Review Crew.  We all love both classical music and Aesop’s fables, so this review promised to be fun.    When, finally, the package arrived, we sat down to listen to it immediately.  Having expected a simple fable set […]

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 […]

Read-Alouds: The Trapp Family Singers

    We just finished reading The Trapp Family Singers. Yes, the book that led to The Sound of Music.    As you know, Maria was preparing to become a nun when she was assigned to be governess to Baron Von Trapp’s motherless children.  She fell in love with the children, the whole family fell […]