Product Reviews

I was so excited when I learned that the entire Homeschool Crew was going to receive the Clean and Flip Chore System and Times Tales by Trigger Memory Systems. I have been hearing about Times Tales for years and had never had the opportunity to see it. And as a neat freak, I’m always looking…

Time4Learning is an on-line education program that offers instruction in reading, language arts, and math. It can be used as a core curriculum, for enrichment, or for remediation. Lessons are available from the preschool level all the way through middle school. In addition to the core subjects, there are also science and social studies enrichment…

Spears Art Studio has produced a wonderful art curriculum for K-8 students.  The author is Dr. Diane S. Spears, an artist who also has an Ed.D. in Christian Education. The curriculum was specifically developed to teach children art from a Biblical World View.  It is available on a convenient CD-ROM. The CD contains 35 weekly…

The Little Man in the Map is a book written by Andrew Martonyi to help children memorize the 50 states. It is published by Schoolside Press and is sold at their website for $19.95. It is also available at Amazon.com. It is a top-quality, hard-back book with glossy full-color pictures and rhyming text. The premise…

Alphabet Alley is a company devoted to preschool toys with a Bible theme. I received 2 different games to review.The first is the Noah’s Ark Go Fish game. The game is the old classic game of Go Fish except that there are 10 different things from Noah’s Ark to "go fish for". The illustrations include…

As an alternate for the TOS Homeschool Crew, I was given a Nativity Set by One2Believe to review. One2Believe is a company that specializes in Bible-based toys. Their vision, from their website, is: to help children learn important Bible lessons and to have them come to faith in Jesus. Our goal is to provide fun…

I am an organization junkie. (Is that an oxymoron?) Anyway, I do love organizing around the house, and I love to make sure that my days, weeks, and months are planned out ahead of time.  That’s why I am so excited about the new Schoolhouse Planner from The Old Schoolhouse magazine.  It is an amazing collection…

Last school year we used Elementary Greek Year 1 with my 4th grade son and 2nd grade daughter. I highly recommend this program for teaching Koine Greek to children.  It is broken down into 5 daily lessons per week.  I did the lessons orally with my kids.  Our oral lesson was followed by a workbook exercise that went with the…

We recently purchased a brand-new resource to use in our homeschool this upcoming year.  It is called Animals in the Bible and is published by Piedmont Educational Services. The set consists of a 40 minute DVD filled with interesting information and spiritual insights to be gained from the animals in the Bible.  It is a…