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Printable Schoolroom Quotes
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Common Nouns vs. Proper Nouns WorksheetsNeeding a little extra practice on common nouns vs. proper nouns? Here are a couple of worksheets in which the... -
Math Wheel for Practicing Addition/Subtraction Fact Triangles 1-10Practicing math using triangular number families is very effective, but at our house, flash cards seem to get... -
Biblical Character Development ResourcesThere are some great Bible based character development sites on the internet, so if you’re looking for something...
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Curriculum Review: God’s Design for Science
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Where to Find Used CurriculumLet’s face it. Homeschooling can be expensive. We cut costs by using the library and finding free resources... -
Curriculum Review: Math U SeeWe started homeschooling in 3rd grade. Math-U-See was recommended to us as a math curriculum. We’ve used... -
Online & Computer Based CurriculumThere are so many great online resources for homeschooling. Following is a growing list of online resources to...
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How Homeschooling Compares with Public Schooling
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A Day in the Life of a Homeschooler: JoAnnaAges of children: kindergarten, 2nd grade, 6th grade Number of Years Homeschooling: 4 years Curriculum: For... -
A Day in the Life of a Homeschooler: CandiAges of children: 2 boys, ages 5 and 3 Number of Years Homeschooling: 2 years Curriculum: Just this year I’ve...
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A Day in the Life of a Homeschooler: JenniferAges of children: 5 kids, ranging in age from 3 to 12 Number of years homeschooling: 5 years I like to tell...
Recent Articles
10 Educational Apps We Love
When I first got the iPad, I knew we’d probably use it for some school related things, but I had no idea how much we’d find that would make learning fun and interesting for all ages of kids. Here are 10 of our favorite apps: MathBoard this is a simply awesome app for math practice [...]
Printable Schoolroom Quotes
I know many like to have pictures of some of our great presidents and founding fathers on their schoolroom walls. Here are 3 printable portraits with quotes – just click on the image to open the large version (about 8×10 inches) or you can right-click and download the PDF to your computer: Tell me and [...]
Make a schoolwork memory book
We all have lots of work our kids have completed sitting around, waiting to be organized or thrown out, and the longer you homeschool and the more kids you have, the paper can really pile up. I tend to be rather unsentimental, almost to a fault and was throwing everything out, until a friend reminded [...]
How Homeschooling Compares with Public Schooling
While there is no doubt that it is entirely possible to obtain a decently good education in the public school system, when you compare homeschooled kids to public school kids as a whole, homeschoolers consistently outperform their public school counterparts. Also, it doesn’t seem to matter how much parents spend in the process or whether [...]
Why we LOVE Classical Conversations
As we began homeschooling several years ago, I looked around at all the different homeschooling methods, and found that the one that resonated with me the most was the classical approach. Or of the great programs available to support a classical approach is Classical Conversations. Here’s why we love it: Memory Work The core of [...]
Anyone else have days like this?
If you give a mom a muffin, She’ll want a cup of coffee to go with it. So she’ll pour herself some. The coffee will get spilled by her three year old. She’ll wipe it up. Wiping the floor, she will find some dirty socks. She’ll remember she has to do some laundry. When she [...]
A Day in the Life of a Homeschooler: JoAnna
Ages of children: kindergarten, 2nd grade, 6th grade Number of Years Homeschooling: 4 years Curriculum: For each of my kiddos, we use Heart of Dakota curriculum, which is an all-in-one curriculum that includes history, science, Bible, language, math…basically everything. It is Charlotte Mason and I have used it for 3 years now and still LOVE it. Each of [...]
Mini Vacation
We’ve only been doing school for a couple of years as my guys are still fairly young, but my preference is still to school year-round. I just don’t see any real reason to arbitrarily stop in the summer, especially since we live in an area where we can fry an egg on the sidewalk in [...]
A Day in the Life of a Homeschooler: Candi
Ages of children: 2 boys, ages 5 and 3 Number of Years Homeschooling: 2 years Curriculum: Just this year I’ve started implementing more of a Charlotte Mason style of learning, but I tweak to what fits us, so there’s a little eclectic in there as well. I use Handwriting Without Tears for writing and phonics, [...]
Curriculum Review: God’s Design for Science
I have been using God’s Design for Science for over a year now and it has been the perfect science curriculum for my homeschool family. It is intended for grades 1 through 8, which fits well for my girls of grades 1 and 3. Even my three year old will pick up some teachings sometimes [...]
My name is Randa, and I'm the mother of two wonderful boys who are the inspiration for this site. We love homeschooling and on Homeschool Roundup we want to share all we're discovering in the process.
