Encouraging, Informing and Connecting the Homeschool Community
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Let me start with a funny. I’m a graphic designer as well as a homeschool mommy, and you know that saying, “Never judge a book by its cover?” Yeah, well, I almost didn’t buy this curriculum. And it was totally because of the hokey-looking graphics. I sit firmly in the camp that believes that [...]
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We went through 2, 3, okay 4 different math curriculums before finding the one we love. And it turns out the one I loved wasn’t exactly the one my boys loved. So, after trying MCP mathematics, Saxon, RightStart and then finally Singapore… we got into a groove that makes my boys both efficient [...]
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I remember typing class.
It wasn’t fun. It was mundane. It took a looooooooong time to learn.
Recently, I was introduced to Keyboard Town Pals. According to the Keyboard Town Pal website,
Keyboard Town PALS™ presents a new, stand-alone digital product that teaches children of all ages to type on a computer keyboard, using the proper finger technique, [...]
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Noah’s Ark from one2believe has been a big hit in our household! Noah and the animals have a nice weight and texture to them, and their appearance and gestures are just so expressive. Take a look and you’ll see what I mean:
One of my favorite features is that the set is self-contained. The top of [...]
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The timing couldn’t have been more perfect when we received our Heads Up! Frames, Readers, Double Time, and Top of the Line products in the mail. My daughter was reading – insisting that she needed to keep her finger under each line to keep her place, while I insisted that she didn’t – when my [...]
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We have always loved Five in a Row and were excited to see they were a vendors whose products we would review; thankfully we received Beyond Five in a Row, Volume 3, which we don’t already own.
Beyond FIAR is geared for ages eight-twelve and uses chapter books rather than picture books. It is a great [...]
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