When given the opportunity to review Reading Kingdom for use with my 5 year old beginning reader Ava, I was so excited. I have two older children at home and was looking for something not only to occupy my daughter for a short time, but something that was going to be educational as well. I […]
When given the opportunity to review two print issues of The HomeMaker’s Mentor, I wasn’t exactly sure what to expect as I am unfamiliar with the site and their products. My first impression…it was like sitting down with your best friend’s scrapbook! I felt like I had seen or tasted something great and then was […]
Last night I had the opportunity to attend Disney on Ice – Treasure Trove. I ended up taking both Ava (5) and Chloe (12) and making a girls night out of it. We splurged and ate dinner at Friendly’s! (We were able to do this because I did not have to pay for the tickets […]
Teaching a foreign language can be a seemingly overwhelming task for someone like myself who does not speak any other language besides English. When thinking about what language to teach my children I always thought Spanish and American Sign Language would be the two most useful languages. For this review I was able to try […]
In August I was given a premium membership to VocabularySpellingCity.com for a candid, personal, online review. My opinions are my own and in no way have been influenced by anyone. Now that we have had a little time with the program, I would like to tell you a little bit about how we are […]
Being a homeschool parent who loves Susan Wise Bauer’s, The Well Trained Mind A Guide to a Classical Education at Home, I decided it was time to give Jessie Wise’s First Language Lessons curriculum a try. First Language Lessons Even though Chloe was in 6th grade last year, I was unsure how well of a […]
I’ve been given a premium membership to VocabularySpellingCity.com for a candid, personal, online review. VocabularySpellingCity.com helps students study word lists using 25 different learning activities such as Vocabulary Test, Word UnScramble and Word Search. Parents can create their own spelling lists, find published lists already available on the site or use any of […]
It’s that time of year again, the time where we are all sighing with relief at another year being complete, and gearing up for the year to come. Typically at this time of year we are putting away last years things and looking for what we will be using for the coming year. If you […]
Over the past month we have been given the opportunity to try out Time4Learning. Each one of my children were given accounts that were set to their grade level. The first thing I liked right off the bat was that if we were working in a level and felt it did not suit our child, […]
I recently stumbled upon this great educational resource for the kids. I especially like it for the plethora of things that Ava is working on acquiring into her brain at this stage of her development. From recognizing numbers, to reading sight words for Ava, as well as things like continents, states, multiplication and division for […]
I came across Pick and Draw in November of 2010 while perusing through the many wonderful homeschool blogs out there. My husband and I tried the demonstration on their website and loved it! It wasn’t until after Christmas that I finally purchased it for my family. (After, of course, trying to win them on various […]
I have been working hard over the past week to develop a “Review” page here on my blog. I have a bunch of Reviews coming over the next couple of weeks. I am happy to report that amongst those will be a Review of Time4Learning. This one will come a little later, after we have […]