Your kids will be inspired to write creatively as they build grammar & vocabulary skills with Night Zookeeper: Full review + discount code.
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Best Homeschool Reading Curriculum for 2021 (Plus Honorable Mentions)
Here are our top picks for best homeschool reading curriculum this year. PLUS honorable mentions and supplemental programs for homeschool.
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Money Management for Teens & Tweens: Teaching Practical Life Skills
Teaching practical skills: money management for teens & tweens. Plus recommendation for a program that teaches financial literacy to kids.
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Homeschool Math Curriculum Online: Best Choice for Struggling Students
Best homeschool math curriculum online! Our top recommendation for an engaging, supportive math program especially helpful for struggling students.
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Pre Reading Activities: 16 Fun and Easy Ideas for Your Future Wiz Kid
There’s so many more pre reading activities you can do besides sing the ABC’s. Here’s how to build phonological awareness & language skills!
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Homeschool Science Kits: A Review of MEL Science
Homeschool Science Kits from MEL Science. Our experience and review of MEL Kids and MEL Chemistry: hands-on science and STEM subscriptions boxes for kids.
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Pre Reading Skills: Build Your Toddler’s or Preschooler’s Future Literacy
Find out what your child needs to learn pre reading skills like phonological awareness, vocabulary, short term memory, and more.
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Pandia Press Review: A look at Real Science Odyssey & History Odyssey
This year we tried two curricula from Pandia Press: Real Science Odyssey, History Odyssey, Ancients (lvl 2). Our experience & recommendations.
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Nature Curriculum that is Engaging for Kids & EASY on Parents
If you’re looking for a hands-on nature curriculum, I highly recommend checking out Think Outside Boxes for a unique twist on nature studies. Check out our video review and read about our experience on the post!
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Homeschool Nature Study: 35 FUN Activities for Kids!
Doing a homeschool nature study might seem daunting, but it shouldn’t be. These 35+ simple tools and activities will get you out the door!
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Phonics Curriculum: Compare 10 Top Homeschool Programs
A guide to choosing the best phonics curriculum for your family. Plus, a comparison of ten top learn-to-read programs for homeschoolers.
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Homeschool Reading Curriculum: All About Reading Review
If you’re searching for a homeschool reading curriculum, All About Reading should be on your list. Our review & recommendations for families.
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Language Arts Curriculum Kindergarten with Logic of English Foundations
Logic of English Foundations, a complete language arts curriculum for kindergarten-fluent reading. Our experience +is LOE right for you?
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Pre K Homeschooling: Teaching the Littlest Learners
Many parents think about pre-k homeschooling when they see the price of traditional preschools in their area. “I could just do that at home! Preschool isn’t that hard.” And then they think a little more about it and start to panic. Fear not, brave parents. Many, many families have been homeschooling preschool kids for longer…
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All in One Homeschool Curriculum: Using Moving Beyond the Page
Our experience and recommendations for using Moving Beyond the Page, a rich and thorough all-in-one homeschool curriculum.
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Teach Writing: 14 Ways to Help a Reluctant Writer!
Are you struggling to teach writing to a reluctant writer? “My kid hates writing! What can I do to help?” “I can’t stand writing! Do I have to do it?” Back when I was a teacher, I heard both of these comments frequently. In my class of at-risk teenagers, most hated school. Reading was frustrating…
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Phonics Books for Kids Learning to Read from age 5-14!!
Engaging, decodable phonics books for kids designed to help struggling readers gain confidence and build reading skills at any age!
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WriteShop Review: A Thorough and ENGAGING Writing Curriculum
Our year-end WriteShop review! Not only is this a thorough and easy to use program, but it got my son to ENJOY writing – a first for us!
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Accommodations for Autism: 21 Best Recommendations for Learning
There are a lot, I mean a lot of accommodations for autism, ADHD, anxiety, and more out there. I should know. I used dozens during my time as an alternative education teacher. But not every accommodation will help every child. Kids with muscular dystrophy don’t need the same accommodations as an autistic, blind, or dyslexic…
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6 Helpful Resources for a Child with Anxiety
If you have a child who worries, it’s easy for YOU to worry, too. Will they make friends? Will it hurt them academically? What could all this worrying do to them physically? If you’re like me, you’ve probably spent long hours searching for resources for child anxiety. That’s just what good parents do! We try…
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