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It’s almost the end of the school year, and all year long, we’ve been using a history curriculum that well, we just don’t love as much as I thought we would. Chris (7th) and Chey (5th) were definitely ready to change things up a bit, and the Hands-On History Lap-Pak: The 20th Century in America from Home School in the Woods arrived at just the right time. We received this unit study / lapbook in downloadable form; it’s . . . → Read More: Review: Homeschool in the Woods 
Every history program can be enhanced with products from Knowledge Quest; to go along with our American history lessons, we’ve been reading Sacagawea (Brave Explorers Every Child Should Know) complete e-book. Originally released as a serial novel in four parts, Sacagawea is now available in its complete form. Written for children ages 10 and up, Sacagawea is the second volume in the Brave Explorers Every Child Should Know series. (Jacques Cartier is the first title.) Historical fiction for the modern era, . . . → Read More: Review: a Sacagawea story 
Salem Ridge Press is a publisher that reprints historical fiction from the late 1800s and the early 1900s. We’ve recently finished reading Leofwine the Monk, a tale of a young man who desires the peace and reflection of a monastery so that he can grow closer to God. The disruptions in the church lead to emotional turmoil for Leofwine, eventually sending him on a quest as far as the Middle East before he can regain his inner peace and find the wholeness of his faith. Recommended for ages 12 and up, . . . → Read More: Review: Salem Ridge Press – Leofwine the Monk 
Lapbooks, says A Journey Through Learning, are “scrapbooks with an educational twist.” I’ve used lapbooks on and off for years with my younger two, Chris and Chey, and the hands-on, crafty nature of lapbooks make them a favorite learning tool with my kids. The best part? A lapbook enhances the appeal of almost any subject – but when the topic is something cool, like Knights & Castles, or Astronomy & Space, it makes the parent’s job even easier. It takes no effort whatsoever to get my children to work on lapbooks. Knights . . . → Read More: Review: A Journey Through Learning 
When teaching American history to students today, it’s easy for us to forget that so many of the stories, even legends, of days gone by were told with the specific intent of building character, encouraging hard work, and through these things, Inspiring the American Dream. Kathleen and Robert Basmadjian have claimed that goal for themselves; seeking to share a dedication to hard work, creative endeavor, and tenacity, they penned the book Abraham’s Journey, in an effort to revitalize the values at the center of the American mindset. A full-color, 18-page paperback, Abraham’s Journey: A . . . → Read More: Inspiring the American Dream 
We’ve been trying out a new-to-us style of homeschool curriculum recently, from Dayspring Christian Academy. The schooling model it’s based around is called the Principal Approach, an offshoot of the classical method developed to encourage the traditional American values and strengths that helped shape our nation. We were able to review one course from Dayspring Christian Academy‘s online school, called The Pilgrim Story. We were told that it’s for grades 3-6, but my 7th grader found it quite interesting, and the projects . . . → Read More: Dayspring Christian Academy Pilgrim Story 
Unit studies are popular with homeschoolers for a variety of reasons: hands-on activities, cross-curriculum work, in-depth study on a topic of interest, and hopefully, something *fun* that helps to make the material memorable. We’ve been working our way through a new product, the Pearl Harbor unit study from Box of IDEAS. Box of IDEAS describes itself as “a company dedicated to creating delightful interactive learning modules centered around random subject areas”. IDEAS stands for Ideally Dynamic Enrichment Activities, or in simpler language, “perfect hands-on educational . . . → Read More: Box of IDEAS Pearl Harbor 
As a homeschool mom with three Boy Scouts, I’ve often looked at looked at the list of merit badges and thought, “Hmmm… that would make a dandy curriculum…” but never taken the time to actually USE it as such. The boys are generally so busy working on advancement, service projects, and so many camping activities that we have to work to find time for non-essential (not Eagle-required) badges, unless it’s something the troop as a whole is doing. Homeschool Legacy’s Once-A-Week Unit Studies . . . → Read More: Homeschool Legacy We The People 
It’s pretty rare that all four of my kids demand the next installment in a book series. Until now, those few titles have been the sort that movies are being from, with wizards or wimps or such. A brand-new author broke the mold. Her name is Hope Auer, and she’s achieved the seemingly impossible; in A Cry From Egypt, she’s written historically (and Biblically) accurate Christian fiction that leaps off the page and captivates the imagination as well as any secular tale. 
Last October we has the opportunity to review an interesting family-friendly movie about George Washington Carver from Marshall Publishing. Marshall Publishing specializes in producing award-winning historical documentaries that combine present-day imagery and reenactments with historical data and photos. This year, Schoolhouse Review Crew members were sent four new DVD titles to review. We received America in the 1880s, which is designed to give excellent overview of the entire decade. Rather than bits and pieces of . . . → Read More: Life in America in the 1880s |
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