Thanks to homeschooling, I am slowly-but-surely learning how to draw (among many other things that I’ve learned alongside my children). This is a big feat for someone who has only drawn free-body diagrams (physics) and stick figures (not physics). Here I’ll give you what has worked best for me, a beginner, in drawing. We’ll start […]
English Grammar Resources: Prepositions, Linking & Helping Verbs
Welcome to our list of resources for practicing prepositions, linking verbs, and helping verbs. This list of grammar resources provides practice with learning and applying these elements of English grammar. In the primary grades (K-2), our children learn quite a bit of English grammar through our custom-built plan based on the Words are Categorical […]
Keeping a Timeline: Timeline Resources
Keeping a visual timeline has been one of our favorite history learning activities. It has provided a way for us to understand circumstances leading up to and surrounding historical events. It has provided a context for us to connect the various things going on across the world at the same time through history. And it’s […]
Favorite Free Latin Resources
Latin’s certainly on my mind a lot lately as we get much more serious about Latin studies in our home. The more we study Latin, the more I love it – and the more value I find in studying this “dead language.” To tell the truth, Latin is much more alive than I’ve given it credit for. In fact, Latin […]
WWII Wrap-up
And, now… after 16 weeks… we have finally finished our official WWII Unit Study. As our WWII history buff, Stephen requested this special project after completing the Industrial Revolution through the Great Depression. As we closed out the school year, he even told me that “if we don’t finish the WWII projects before summer, that’s okay. Because […]
I was scared. Really scared.
Today I came across a video of a homeless man joining a musician in worship (boy, this video makes me cry such good tears!) and it reminded me of something I wrote shortly after we moved to the backwoods of Tennessee. (Really, a trip to Houston should not freak me out all that much, seeing how […]
GeoDrawing Camp
God’s grace is His ability to do in me (and through me) that which I cannot. So… I guess you could say I didn’t have much of an excuse when the director of our homeschool community said that she needed camp leaders for a practicum. Believe me, I could have given some excuses, like… …my […]
Down to the river…
A mother’s journal entry on March 12, 2012: “Call to me and I will answer you and tell you great and unsearchable things you do not know.” -Jeremiah 33:3. My son chose this as his favorite Bible verse at the beginning of this school year. And after months of deep questioning and analysis on his […]
Preparing for Essentials
There are three main portions to the Essentials program: English Grammar and Structure through the Essentials of the English Language Guide Writing Structure and Style through Institute for Excellence in Writing Math practice through games and competition Rather than go into a long-winded explanation of what Essentials is, I leave you with this at-a-glance info […]