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A Roarin’’20s Book Club: “Isabel Feeney, Star Reporter”
Some books just scream out for a special event, and that’s exactly what happened when I read Isabel Feeney, Star Reporter. I knew it would make a fantastic book club pick – not only because it offers...
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New! Stock Market Challenge Project
My Little Man is totally fascinated with the stock market lately. He’s done chores to earn the money to purchase his very own stock, and he’s picked his favorite companies (that have stock he can...
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Book Club, Boys’ Edition: Gary Paulsen’s “Lawn Boy”
Last month the boys read Gary Paulsen’s Lawn Boy for book club. Maybe this seems like a strange choice for January, because it’s really about just what it sounds: a boy who creates a summer job...
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Interviewing Author Chris Grabenstein
It started with the happiest of emails. Not the fake “you’ve-won-a-million-dollars” type, but the a real from-the-personal-assistant “Congratulations! You’ve won!” type. In this instance, though,...
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Entering a National History Day Competition
When I hit middle school, I was encouraged to compete in our local National History Day competition. I was hooked from that very first event: I loved the research, the preparation, the work to...
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Living History: The Roaring ’20s
It was the era of gangsters, Prohibition, and all that glitters. It’s known as the Roaring ‘20s, and our living history club brought the era back to life. We love holding this special events each...
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Field Work Friday: Visiting the Nina & the Pinta
Did you know that there are reproductions of historic ships sailing around the world? I didn’t, until recently, but when we found out, my DH arranged to take us to a nearby port city to see the Nina...
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NEW! Make Planning Beautiful with the Year Round Homeschooling Planner
If you’ve been following our school journey for any length of time, you know that we do homeschool a bit differently, and I don’t mean just because we homeschool. Sometimes we’re eclectic. Sometimes...
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NEW! A Linked Unit Study for Elise Broach’s “The Wolf Keepers”
Every once in a while, I read a book that I grabs all of my attention and screams to be used for fun with kids. I love taking those books and turning them into fun unit studies for educational...
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NEW! “Lemoncello” Movie Pack and Bundles!
It’s no secret that I’m a big fan of Chris Grabenstein’s Escape from Mr. Lemoncello’s Library series, and I’m not the only one – that first book spent more than 100 weeks on the New York Times’...
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Book Club: “Harry Potter & the Sorcerer’s Stone”
We recently embarked on one of our most fun book clubs ever: we read Harry Potter & the Sorcerer’s Stone. My Big Helper worked with me to flesh out details of the book that we could bring to...
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Have You Tried SchoolhouseTeachers.com? – Review
I’m excited to announce that I’ve joined the Homeschool Review Crew this year! That will mean more reviews, more versatility, and a wider variety of great products and programs that I can share....
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10 Reasons Why Should Kids Meet Authors
Many people see the benefit of kids being good readers, or, at the very least, of reading good books while in school. Fewer people see the benefit, it would seem, of meeting the people who write the...
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NEW! “All Four Stars” Writing and Novel Study Packs
I love when we find a book that’s exciting to read but full of springboards for learning, too, and that’s exactly what Tara Dairman’s All Four Stars is. It’s the wonderful story of Gladys, a young...
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Book Club: “All Four Stars” by Tara Dairman
I’ve had trouble keeping up with our book club sharing, but we’ve been having loads of fun with books this year! All Four Stars was one of those books. Meet Gladys Gatsby: New York’s toughest...
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Hunting for Bigfoot with “Lemons”
I love that our local library gets lots of new books – and many of those are books by debut authors. One of those books turned out to be a fantastic book club pick with loads of possibilities. It’s...
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Book Club with the Boys: “The Way of the Warrior”
I was intrigued when I first saw The Way of the Warrior on the new-book shelf at the library. I was hesitant when I saw the simple line drawings dotting the page – because I was looking for a...
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“Wulf The Saxon” by Heirloom Audio Productions Review
Our family loves to listen to books in the car when we travel – and since we live 45 minutes from our library and just about everything else, we do a lot of listening! So when we were offered the...
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Learning to Type with an Ultrakey Online Family Subscription – Review
Hunt…hunt ….. peck … hunt… peck…. And so it goes. Watching my kids try to type their special school projects and emails to friends was painful. They were excited to be using the computer and didn’t...
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Make History Come Alive with Drive Thru History – Review
A few years ago we used some Drive Thru History DVDs an part of our Colonial American history unit. We all loved them, which is why we were very excited to find out there’s more to Drive Thru History...
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