The Crafty Classroom Reviews

This article is a collaboration with The Crafty Classroom. Life as a teacher sure is easier when your materials are well-designed and fun! A homeschooling family with four kids, The Crafty Classroom offers a wide variety of printable materials for your homeschooling needs. The Homeschool Review Crew reviewed various PDF products for Preschool, Kindergarten, and … Read more

Road & Vacation Schooling

Our family road schools, which means that we travel throughout the year, focusing on studies on the opportunities we meet each week. One week, we might be studying the American Revolution in Boston. Another week, we might be studying marine biology in Oregon. It’s all about immersion learning and getting hands-on. That doesn’t mean that … Read more

Biology, Chemistry & Physics Reviews

This article is in collaboration with Fascinating Education. Fascinating Education uses a step-by-step right hemisphere approach to science. Right hemisphere? By using simple, clear pictures and audio in addition to text the right hemisphere is engaged and science becomes more understandable. Students start lessons with simple observations and questions. Each question leads to another question … Read more

Sharing the Load

I’ve been on this homeschool gig for many years and I sometimes feel a bit inadequate teaching a given topic to my punks.  Maybe that’s just me.  Or… just maybe you sometimes feel the same way.  Thankfully, I don’t have to sail this homeschooling ship all by my onesies.  Savvy (to paraphrase Captain Jack Sparrow)?  … Read more

Biblical Based Science Reviews

This article is in collaboration with Novare Science & Math. Science is all about theories, hypothesis, and exploration which can make it pretty hard to figure out which science is the right one for your student.  This can be especially true when you get to middle school and high school.  This is why the Homeschool … Read more