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Homeschool Crew Review: Nutrition 101: Choose Life!

  So often I hear about how North Americans harm themselves by their food choices.  Although our family has always eaten quite nutritiously,  there are many ways in which I could improve our family’s nutrition.  Some of them I’m not prepared to get involved with.  Yet.  Some I even scoff at.  For now.   I think all thoughtful food […]

Homeschool Crew Review: ALEKS

  As I mentioned in a previous post,  we have been using ALEKS, a wonderful online math tutor.  The children have learned a huge amount in our free one month trial, and we are now familiar enough with ALEKS to be able to give you a thorough review. Summary ALEKS is an online system for Assessment […]

ALEKS Math Preview

As a member of the TOS Homeschool Crew,  I was offered a free month of the math program ALEKS.  We’re about halfway through the trial, and it is so wonderful that I want to let you know about it right away.  You see, I can offer you the same free one month trial that I got, and […]

Inspiring Nature Study Blog

Finally, I found a nature blog,  Earth is Crammed With Heaven…,  that combines incredible photography with lovely passages from the Bible and from literature.  It also has links for all kinds of information about nature.  I think this is what a Charlotte Mason nature notebook would be like, except this uses a camera rather than a […]

This Year’s Seedlings

This evening we were finally ready to finish planting our seedlings.  We have 10 geraniums, 10 stevias,  8 tiny tim tomatoes, scores of petunias and hot peppers, as well as hundreds of oregano, tomato, marigold, and winter savory plants.  The geraniums are already up and each one is growing its second true leaf with its crescent of dark color on the green.  […]