With four kids, I must confess that I don’t always get around to helping all of them practice their spelling words. As a matter of fact, this school year I have somehow almost completely forgotten about spelling. I may have found the solution to my problem though. SpellQuizzer is spelling software designed to drill your…
ARTistic Pursuits
I do not consider myself an artist. I have not received any formal instruction in art since middle school. I don’t draw or paint (except walls). But compared to my husband, I am a master. He can’t draw a stick figure. Somehow the art gene must have skipped both of us and planted itself firmly…
ARTistic Pursuits
I do not consider myself an artist. I have not received any formal instruction in art since middle school. I don’t draw or paint (except walls). But compared to my husband, I am a master. He can’t draw a stick figure. Somehow the art gene must have skipped both of us and planted itself firmly…
Organizing Homeschool Supplies
Have you every looked at pictures of other people’s perfectly organized school rooms and had to wipe the drool off your keyboard? There are some people who have amazing school rooms with custom designed desks for each student, wall-to-wall book shelves, special computer areas, and you name it, someone has probably built it. I’ve even…
Math Mammoth
I loved math as a child. I especially enjoyed all the higher maths including Calculus. I think that one of the reasons that I enjoyed math, was that I understood it. I remember thinking how odd some of my friends’ math study methods were. They spent a lot of time trying to memorize how to…
Math Mammoth
I loved math as a child. I especially enjoyed all the higher maths including Calculus. I think that one of the reasons that I enjoyed math, was that I understood it. I remember thinking how odd some of my friends’ math study methods were. They spent a lot of time trying to memorize how to…
Mystery Tracks
One of the on-going projects in Apologia Elementary Zoology 3 is to make a notebook of animal tracks. In addition, the lesson that we just finished has a project to try to collect animal tracks in your backyard using wet cement in a pan and food for bait. Hopefully, an animal will walk through the…
Five in a Row
Five in a Row (FIAR) is a unit study curriculum created by Jane Claire Lambert for students ages 4-8. The unit studies are based on children’s literature. Each day for five days, the same book is read aloud to the child. After reading the book, there are suggested activities to complete. Each day a different…
Prairie Primer
As a child, I loved Little House on the Prairie. I loved the books. I loved the television show. In addition, I read a biography of Laura Ingalls Wilder. I even used the atlas that was in the last volume of my Britannica Junior Encyclopedias to locate all the towns where she had lived. (Yes,…
Prairie Primer
As a child, I loved Little House on the Prairie. I loved the books. I loved the television show. In addition, I read a biography of Laura Ingalls Wilder. I even used the atlas that was in the last volume of my Britannica Junior Encyclopedias to locate all the towns where she had lived. (Yes,…