A few years ago, this was a very basic rule in our house. Everyone did Bible first — Every Day! No Exceptions, Bible always came first. On days when we had COOP; or dentist appts., or whatever — Bible might have been the only subject we got done at home that day. When my kids tried to alter this I'd say, “No, Bible is the most important thing you study; and I want to make sure that no matter Continue Reading >>
Product Review: Math Mammoth Blue series Worktexts
We don't use Math Mammoth as our primary math curriculum, however we have made extensive use of several sets as supplemental material. We already owned the Light Blue series Grade 3 Complete and Grade 5 Complete and the Sampler Download when Math Mammoth came available for review. I thought this would be a good time to target some specific areas where my children struggle. We chose to review four Continue Reading >>
Product Review: God’s Special Surprise by See The Light
On again, off again is sadly the way we do art. We will plow through an entire year's worth of curriculum in one semester and then just not really touch formal art for a year. It's not that art doesn't happen. My kids are always knee-deep in some creative project or another. It's just that we don't spend a specified portion of time studying art technic. Whenever I have the chance to review Continue Reading >>
How We Use NotebookingPages.com Every Day in Our Homeschool: Scripture Memory
The fact of the matter is we really do use NotebookingPages.com every single day in our homeschool. I talked a little bit in Part 3 about how we use The Notebooking Publisher™ to create copywork pages for my eldest daughter. Now let's talk about how that relates to Scripture Memory. Her assignment each day is to copy whatever AWANA verses she is working on for the week. Sometimes, she just gets Continue Reading >>
How We Use NotebookingPages.com Every Day in Our Homeschool (Part 3)
Have you seen the The Notebooking Publisher™ web app? This feature at NotebookingPages.com is seriously awesome. We use The Notebooking Publisher almost every single day because my eldest daughter prefers to have her copywork pages created in this web app. In fact, we use the pages every day, I just usually create quite a few pages at once. It is so easy to Continue Reading >>
Outdoor Exploration for Kids
Something very special starts happening in our home during Spring time. You know that saying "Spring is in the air." Well, its not just about romantic love! When you are a child, Spring in the air is all about the excitement of leaves budding, tomato blossoms, warm weather, and sunshine. We live in southern California about 1/4 mile from the ocean as the crow flies and to us grown-ups it feels Continue Reading >>
How We Use NotebookingPages.com Every Day: Part 2
Last time I blogged about NotebookingPages.com I shared about my daughter and her sudden love for all things notebooking. Today I am going to talk about how we supplement various curriculum with the different pages from NotebookingPages.com. Now just so you know, Caleb is really starting to enjoy notebooking too. He is newly seven-years-old and wants to follow in his big sister's path. Caleb Continue Reading >>
Motherhood: Beautiful Moments and the Promise of Things Yet to Come
I know I used the phrase "beautiful moments" in my title, but I would like to start out by sharing a not-so-beautiful story about my motherhood. The story of Mother's Day 2012. Mother's Day 2012 was all about me. That was my perspective anyway. I wanted to go somewhere "nice" for lunch. We left the first restaurant we tried when we were told it was a two hour wait. We spent about an hour Continue Reading >>
How We Use NotebookingPages.com Every Single Day: Part 1
I've mentioned notebooking with my daughter several times now, and I wanted to share a little bit more of our story. Anna found a sudden passion for notebooking this year. She has blossomed into an avid lover of all things history, all things birds, and all things literature. I don't know the exact moment it happened, but suddenly she wanted to create books or lapbooks about everything she Continue Reading >>
How To Make a Fantastic Notebooking Journal for $5 or less.
I've been pondering this for a while. How do I make a notebooking journal for my son to use that is sturdy, expandable, and at the same time attractive enough to get him excited. We are using a science curriculum that has lots of great printables but no place to put them. I want him to start keeping good records of our work. He loves the cutting and taping of his projects into lapbooks. Continue Reading >>