Language Arts

Rod and Staff Grammar

When I was a child, my younger sisters studied grammar differently than I did. They learned something mysterious called ‘diagramming’…
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Read for the Heart – A Book about Books

I have yet to meet a homeschool family that did not love books. On my quest to find wonderful books…
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Choosing Literature

Read the best books first, or you may not have a chance to read them at all. ~Henry David Thoreau….
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Classic Starts

Since we’ve starting homeschooling, I’ve been so surprised at how much I learn right along with my kids. I’ve always loved…
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Greenleaf Guide to Old Testament History

Years ago, when we first started homeschooling, another veteran homeschooler recommended that I take a look at “the Greenleaf history…
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First Language Lessons and Language Lessons for the Very Young 1: A Comparison

It is confession time. We used First Language Lessons this year for our language study. We also used Language Lessons…
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Get Your Hands on Learning!

I have recently had the pleasure to read the first e-book by Kris, the widely read author of the blog…
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Writing Wheels Keeps Your Child on a Roll

I had the pleasure of introducing my daughter to Writing Wheels, by Maupin House. Teaching a child to write composition…
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Get Ready for the Code: Pre-Literacy Primers

Get Ready for the Code is the first of 3 pre-literacy phonics primers from Explode the Code. These are simple to use workbooks perfect for your prek-1st grades. Each book focuses in-depth on 6-8 lower-case consonants. They cover letter recognition, letter formation, letter sounds, relating beginning sounds to pictures, left-right orientation, and using small motor skills. A Review from The Curriculum Choice