One of the things I mightily struggle with is trying to instill virtue in my kids. I have tried several different ways and methods of doing so and none of them have felt right or stuck with our family for very long. I received a message from Monica Speach about her Catholic character program, Program […] Read more…
Disclaimer: This post contains affiliate links at no extra cost to you. Thanks for your support! I don’t mind science but as I added more students, I decided to concentrate on doing the basics REALLY well. Something had to give and with my early elementary kiddos, science is one of those. I refuse to take […] Read more…
Bookworm-8 is now ready to enter third grade. Taking an extra year was the best decision EVER! I never could have guessed how much growing, both emotionally and intellectually, would happen this over last year. Like last year, we started with Memoria Press Third Grade Core as our jumping point. That being said, we […] Read more…
Our daughter, Miss Lady-5 does not meet the cut-off to have been considered a kindergartener last year, but she was more than ready (and wanting) to begin Kindergarten level work in January. So we did. We also did the Kindergarten Memoria Press literature, science and enrichment last year. This year, I looked at the Memoria […] Read more…
I put a LOT of thought into how to make this school year work with a rambuctious 3-year old boy, his crazy 6-year old sister and an extremely social third grader. I always get overly ambitious and started out with several subjects that I have since dropped to preserve peace in the house. Thank goodness […] Read more…
Last year, I decided to jump back into classical education. As much as my oldest liked crafty things, I despise them. But we all like books (hello Charlotte Mason) and I wanted my oldest to start Latin. So we started with Memoria Press & tweaked. Go here to see our original choices for K4 Curriculum […] Read more…
I just recently realized that I didn’t do a Day in the Life post this year. I don’t know about you, but it’s kind of fun to look back on what a day used to look like at various times. I did this on a kind of crazy day in mid-April, before we left on […] Read more…
One of my favorite subjects to teach/learn with the kids is history. We have enjoyed Story of the World for a few years now, along with many classic stories from books like Little Stories of Famous American’s and 50 Famous People. This year, when TAN Homeschool emailed me about their new Catholic elementary history curriculum called […] Read more…
Disclaimer: I received a copy of this in exchange for an honest review. This post contains affiliate links at no extra charge to you; thank you for your support! I have been homeschooling, for real, for about 4 years. In that time, I’ve added a third little one, been dealt with health issues and added […] Read more…
Once upon a time when I discovered blogging and reviewing and I decided to try to actually earn an income playing online, I went to a concert called Allume. I think they have since decided to temporarily stop putting on conferences, but while I was there, I got to hear Denise Eide talk about her […] Read more…