These days our homeschooling routine looks a bit different. With a baby and 2-year-old vying for my attention, it’s gotten challenging to complete a full school schedule with my 2nd grader. Challenging, but not impossible. With a little strategy and patience, it’s definitely doable. Once you get into a routine, it is possible to keep…
Homeschool Music Appreciation
In this post I talk about how to help your kids not just appreciate but actually enjoy classical music without a pricey music appreciation curriculum. Some of my suggestions for teaching music appreciation do cost money, but not all of them. However, if you want to go beyond a general understanding and appreciation of classical…
20 French Club Activities for Your Homeschool
Let’s face it, one of the best parts about learning a new language are the cultural activities, like the exposure to completely new food, music and entertainment. In this post, I talk about WHY and HOW, on Fridays, we pull out our French learning activities and make our homeschool French class our French Club. Many…
Abeka Math Curriculum Review – Arithmetic 3
It’s difficult to be objective when you’ve grown up using a particular curriculum. That being said, I try really hard to evaluate my curriculum choices for my kids without going along with something simply because it’s familiar. In this post, I give an honest Abeka math curriculum review, despite the fact that I have fond…
First Start French I – Homeschool French Curriculum Review
In this post, I review Memoria Press’ classical homeschool French curriculum First Start French I, having used it for my 6-year-old second grader this year. TLDR: If you have limited options, this isn’t a terrible “spine” to build your French class around. In fact, if you’re willing to put the work into designing your own…
