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Friday Review
Welcome to this early-winter edition of the Friday Review—it actually snowed when I came into work today. SNOWED! And that makes me think of one book, and one book only: An all-time favorite children’s...
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Friday Review: 10.30.09
Some FUN new things this week! Did you enter the contest for the chance to win a copy of Vision Forum’s new “The Mysterious Islands” DVD yet? And while you’re over there, you might as well check out...
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More Useful Skills
A few weeks ago, I was up at 6 AM, and found myself driving into Boston at 7 muttering a mix of conjugated French verbs and snippets from a 7-minute testimony I had been asked to give at my college’s...
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Peter Francisco Day
Never heard of him? You’re certainly not alone! One of the ignored heroes of the Revolutionary War, his descendant 6-times-removed has decided to bring him back into the spotlight once more. Hercules...
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Book Review: King Alfred’s English
All those “sk” sounding words: sky, skid, skill…who brought those words to English? Why don’t our animal names match up with the names for our cuts of meat? Why do we call it both England and Britain?...
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Well-Planned Day Planner Review
Getting ready to start the school-year up again, boxes of curriculum had their appeal—but I’m not sure anything could compare to the joy of That Year’s Planner. The scores of blank lines, the cover,...
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Homeschool E-books
The homeschooler’s never-abating love for books can lead to some problems. Stacks of books everywhere, lack of bookshelf space, those time-absorbing decisions of which books to keep downstairs and...
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Review: Pick Up Your Pen
I LOVE this. LOVE it. A visual treat that I would have adored as a homeschooling kid (and, as I still remain a rather font-obsessed person, am head over heels for even now), Monica Dengo’s Pick Up...
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Review: Brain Food
You hear of people homeschooling because, in part, their kids fidget. Their kids like to move while they learn, problems ensue in the classroom, et cetera et cetera et cetera. It’s a powerful thing....
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Book Review: The Great Molasses Flood
Non-fiction kids’ books are great. One of Charlesbridge Publishing’s newest books, The Great Molasses Flood is on a particularly unique topic [what, you weren’t planning an entire unit study around...
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