My daughter and I butt heads about school all. the. time. I think she knows school would be way more of a time suck, but it still doesn’t help her with a seemingly never ending pile of work. When saw My Student Logbook being offered for review, I pretty much begged. My Student Logbook My […] Read more…
Talk Like A Pirate Day {Week} Resources 2014 – Preschool & Second Grade
So this week I had to do my planning WAY in advance since we were on vacation for the last two weeks. Here are the resources we are using for “Pirate School” this year. Preschool Pirate Resources For PreK, I had a lot of leftovers printed from previous years. I gathered up the following […] Read more…
My Whole Self Before You – Book and Curriculum based on The Lord’s Prayer {Review}
Disclaimer: I received a copy of these items in exchange for an honest review. This post contains affiliate links. Thanks for your support! I was put in touch with Susan Case Bonner by a friend of my husband’s. He owns a book publishing company in town and her book My Whole Self Before You won […] Read more…
UberSmart Math Facts Review {Schoolhouse Review Crew}
Much like when we hit our teens & twenties wall, we are hitting a wall with addition and subtraction math facts. Many curriculums (especially online ones), teach strategies for problem solving and totally ignore memorization. In my opinion, its totally necessary. When the opportunity to review UberSmart Math Facts came up, I all but begged to […] Read more…
8 Steps to Prepping for the New {Home} School Year {5 Days of Back to Homeschool – The Early Years}
If you haven’t already started your school year, here are 8 easy steps to prepping for your next school year. 1. Put away last years curriculum. First of all, empty the place where you keep your current curriculum, whether that is shelves or drawers. I keep the kids art supplies there, too, so I reorganized […] Read more…
Easing into a New {Home} School Year {5 Days of Back to Homeschool – The Early Years}
Easing into school is always difficult — the weather is still nice, the other kids are still on summer break (we school year round) and frankly, we are still working on self-discipline :). All of us!! We spend the first month slowly easing into school. Preschool – Month 1 For my preschooler, we are going […] Read more…
3 Tools for Teaching Teens & Twenties {5 Days of Back to Homeschool – The Early Years}
When I was teaching our oldest math in Kindergarten, we had THE hardest time with the teens. She could count them out loud but being able to identify them was practically impossible. We got stuck on them for months. Here are 3 things we did that got us over that hump. […] Read more…
First Day of {Home} School Traditions {5 Days of Back to Homeschool – The Early Years}
As year round homeschoolers, even though we take off the month of July, we still do summer school. Summer school tends to be the most hated subjects because they are the ones I don’t want to lose ground in. This year was math. In order to try to build a little excitement around the new […] Read more…
Homeschooling for First Grade & Under – Avoiding Overload {5 Days of Back to Homeschool – The Early Years}
Disclaimer: This post contains affiliate links. Thanks for your support! We have always known we were going to homeschool and being the list making over achiever that I am, I tried to start school at age 2, failing miserably, starting & stopping every year until age 6. True story. This post is to share […] Read more…
Hey Mama! Homeschool Planner – 6 Year Blogoversary Giveaway
As a member of the Schoolhouse Review Crew, I was able to get my hot little hands on one of the new physical Hey Mama Schoolhouse Planners for 2014-2015. If you don’t have a planner for this year yet, here is your chance to get one for free! This simple planner is spiral […] Read more…