Are you looking for picture books and read-alouds to share with your children this Christmas season? The following books are a collection of our personal family favorites, including Christmas legends and folktales, beloved Christmas carols, art & history connections, and stories that focus on love, joy, and generosity while also celebrating the Greatest Gift ever […]
Building Work Ethic in Boys (and Girls)
This year we’ve been reading and discussing the book Created for Work as an extra devotional in our home — and I only wish we had found it sooner! Although this resource is recommended for boys in middle school and up, we’ve found that it applies to our whole family — from our 5th grader […]
Instead of Worksheets & Tests
A friend recently lamented about her daughter’s struggle with passing history tests. “She’s doing the work, but she’s doing poorly on the exams.” What kind of exams were they? Multiple choice and fill-in-the-blank. While test-taking in itself is a skill to learn simply because of the modern education movement, a more natural mode of assessment has always existed (although it […]
Devotional Biology: A Different Approach
Although we recently reviewed Experience Biology, we wanted to also share with you another self-paced, video-based course for biology because it is just so unique. In fact, it is so different that it’s been in our queue to review for a couple of years now. Why? Well, even though our second son (who was originally […]
University-Ready Writing
If you’re looking for a resource that teaches note-taking skills, formal writing models, the Five Canons of Rhetoric, and/or the Five Common Topics, we highly recommend IEW’s new course, University-Ready Writing. University-Ready Writing is a 12-week video-based course which teaches high school students advanced note-taking skills and writing techniques in preparation for college-level writing. It […]
High School Science: Experience Biology
Our family has come across some high school-level biology courses that have prepared our sons well for college. However, we wanted to share a video-based option that helps families in tackling this often challenging subject. We’re excited to share a high school biology course that not only provides quality, self-paced instruction (with labs and dissections!), […]
High School Chemistry Simplified
For years, our family has used Jay Wile’s Discovering Design with Chemistry, which has prepared our sons well for college-level science. However, we’ve been searching for another option to help families in tackling this often challenging subject with confidence. We’re excited to share that we’ve finally found a high school chemistry course that not only […]
Why we do what we do. And an honest update.
We’ve experienced it. We had embraced family-style homeschooling for several years when our eldest son entered high school. Suddenly, our family felt pulled in different directions. A large reason we started homeschooling was for family togetherness, and yet we witnessed unity and connection disintegrating right in front of us. At that time, we re-evaluated our […]
High School Lesson Plans: Truth Trek Two
Our Truth Trek Two Homeschool High School Lesson Plans are here! A few years ago, we started to pursue a long-term vision of developing a complete course of study for Grades 1-12, one in which families can experience many of the benefits of a one-room schoolhouse atmosphere. As a first step towards that end, we […]