I love homeschooling. I love having time to grow and think together. I love the challenge of finding new ways for my children to learn. I love the flexibility of taking field trips whenever we want or need them. I love that we can learn together without divisions in ages and grades. I love that … Read more
This article is in collaboration with Handwriting Without Tears. For over thirty years, Handwriting Without Tears has been teaching handwriting in just 15 minutes a day! Their multi-sensorial program combines hands-on learning, music, workbooks, and assessments to help children learn to write without resulting in tears. Handwriting Without Tears (HWT) produces learning tools and books … Read more
Classical Academic Press is a leading name in the classical method of home education, offering resources covering languages, logic, and Bible study. The Crew has spent the past several weeks reviewing the following Classical Academic Press products: Song School Spanish is the latest product in the Classical Academic Press language course choices. For $24.95, … Read more
Most of the time when favorite homeschool subjects are being discussed, someone is asking one of your students, “What’s your favorite subject?” In my house, the answer would be, “Anything but math!” But this week’s Blog Cruise is a fun one! We are asking members of the Crew which subjects are their favorites to teach! … Read more
Home educators are all about learning. We spend a disproportionate amount of our time thinking, planning, collecting materials, and preparing a cerebral meal for our best and most important students – our children. Phonics turns into creative writing, baking soda-driven volcanoes morph into equations on a page, and the years drift by as relentless … Read more