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By Shawna, on June 16th, 2013 
I’ve been grumbling about not being able to find a simple, straight-forward, just-the-basics Geography curriculum for my rising 6th and 8th graders, so I was excited to receive Geography I from Memoria Press to review. Mind you, I wasn’t wanting an in-depth study of the culture and history of every nation in the world; perhaps my ideal would be better described as a briefing, giving them a baseline from which to understand current events and historical references.
Given my goals, I’m totally pleased. Let . . . → Read More: Geography from Memoria Press (review)
By Shawna, on May 5th, 2013
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
By Shawna, on April 18th, 2013 
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
By Shawna, on April 4th, 2013 
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
By Shawna, on November 23rd, 2012 
Best part of homeschooling – playing games and calling it school.
Learning to play Nine Men’s Morris aka Social Studies. Did you know the Vikings played nine mens’ morris – or a very similar game – on their ships?
By Shawna, on November 13th, 2012 
The Wild Brothers (and their parents) are missionaries living in the remote jungles of Indonesia. Growing Up Wild is a collection of 5 DVDs that they have created to share their experience with people back home, whether they be homeschoolers, church groups, or just anyone curious what the day to day life of a missionary is really like.
We were sent two volumes, 1 and 4, to review. Each DVD has three episodes centered around a particular facet of missionary life, and follows the four . . . → Read More: Growing Up Wild
By Shawna, on October 16th, 2012 
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
By Shawna, on October 4th, 2012 
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
By Shawna, on September 16th, 2012 
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
By Shawna, on August 25th, 2012 
In honor of a great man’s passing, Unit Studies by Amanda Bennett is offering the Space unit study FREE to the first 1,000 to use coupon code OneSmallStep.
Rest in peace, Neil Armstrong.
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