(This post contains affiliate links. Clicking on them costs you nothing and helps to support this blog. Thank you.) It took a few years of homeschooling before I could accept a fundamental truth about myself as a homeschooling parent. Maybe you can relate.I stink at preparing for science. If a curriculum requires me to gather… Continue reading Science Unlocked Curriculum Review
Category: Curriculum Reviews
5th Grade Curriculum and Routine
This post contains affiliate links. Clicking on them costs you nothing and helps to support this blog. Thank you! Our Morning Routine We do these things in this order because it's what works for us. If any part of it doesn't suit you or your kids, it is OKAY to do things differently. Even if… Continue reading 5th Grade Curriculum and Routine
4th Grade Curriculum Report Card
With only about 20 days left in our 4th grade year, I'm ready to share with you my thoughts about the resources we used. These are my very honest thoughts, and you'll see that in some instances we tried a curriculum and abandoned it when it wasn't a good fit for us. Reading All About… Continue reading 4th Grade Curriculum Report Card
Our 3rd Grade Curriculum Picks
This post contains affiliate links. Clicking on them costs you nothing and helps to support the upkeep of this blog. Thank you for your support! Reading All About Reading - As I've shared with you before, my kids are dyslexic, so reading instruction is a very big deal at our house. Last winter, we were… Continue reading Our 3rd Grade Curriculum Picks
Our 2nd Grade Curriculum Report Card
This post contains affiliate links. Clicking on them costs you nothing and helps to support the upkeep of this blog. Thank you for your support! This spring in our homeschool could be called "2nd Grade, Interrupted." It felt like we were spinning our wheels this winter, so I took my kids in for a cognitive… Continue reading Our 2nd Grade Curriculum Report Card
Our Curriculum Picks for 2nd Grade
This post contains affiliate links. Clicking on them costs you nothing extra and helps to support the upkeep of this blog. Thank you for your support! Reading All About Reading - This year we'll pick up where we left off in AAR. I expect to finish AAR2 and get started with AAR3. Handwriting Handwriting Without… Continue reading Our Curriculum Picks for 2nd Grade
Our First Grade Curriculum Report Card
It’s that time of year when we’re all thinking about what worked this year, what’s worth re-ordering for next year, and what needs to be placed on a funeral pyre and burned at sea. Here’s the curriculum that worked – or not – for us this year. (This post contains Amazon Affiliate links.) Reading All… Continue reading Our First Grade Curriculum Report Card
Mad Libs Love (Freebie!)
(This post contains Amazon Affiliate Links) There are so many things I relied on as a classroom teacher that just don't translate to the homeschooling realm, but one thing that has proven to be a thing of beauty in both worlds is Mad Libs. With my high schoolers, Mad Libs was a fun activity to sneak in on a… Continue reading Mad Libs Love (Freebie!)
The Language Arts Coach 