How ironic is it that I write for a living, but struggle to teach writing to my children? My writing instruction while in public school was limited at best.
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Explore Electrical Engineering with Circuit Maze
As a homeschooling Mom, I love games that double as learning materials! Think Fun creates games that sharpen the mind and make learning fun.
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20 Ways to Draw a Bike Review
I have no artistic talent yet my children love art, so I’m always on the lookout for art materials the children can enjoy and use to teach themselves.
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Marie’s Words – Visual Vocabulary for All Ages Review
When I think about vocabulary instruction, I immediately picture long lists of obscure words, and a page full of sentences written to demonstrate understanding of the word. It’s hard to do vocabulary without boring worksheets and a million sentences. The kids don’t want to do it, and I neither do I!
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The Amazing Dr. Ransom’s Bestiary of Adorable Fallacies: A Field Guide for Clear Thinkers Review & Giveaway
I am spending a lot of time with logic curriculum this summer as I prepare to teach logic for the first time this fall. I’m looking for a logic curriculum that this logic impaired Momma can understand… and teach! This month Timberdoodle Co sent The Amazing Dr. Ransom’s Bestiary of Adorable Fallacies: A Field Guide for Clear Thinkers for review. This book teaches readers to identify and ‘exterminate’ fifty informal fallacies
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Critical & Creative Thinking Activities Review
Teaching students how to think critically and creatively is one of my most important jobs as a homeschooling mother. Along with teaching reading, it’s a skill that will carry my children successfully through life. If my children learn to think through and puzzle out problems, they will be able to find solutions for themselves throughout their entire lives. Timberdoodle sent Evan-Moor’s Critical & Creative Thinking Activities books to my family for review.
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The Fallacy Detective: Thirty-Eight Lessons on How To Recognize Bad Reasoning Review
I am really looking forward to diving into logic with my 7th grader next year. Logic is one of only two subjects I nearly failed in college, it made absolutely no sense at the time.
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Sunya Publishing – Adding and Subtracting – Review
Learning with games is always a hit at our house. We’ve been playing a brand new product from Sunya Publishing, a card game called The Magic and Wonder of Math and Science Adding & Subtracting.
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Writers in Residence Review
Writers in Residence is an all-in-one writing curriculum appropriate for students in grades 4 through 8 from Apologia Educational Ministries. This curriculum not only teaches students to write using their own unique voice, but also teaches grammar along the way.
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More StoryTime Treasures from Memoria Press
Reading great books with my children is definitely one of the major reasons I love homeschooling. Especially in the early years, I believe the best thing I can do for them is read, read, read together.
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