by Learning Mama | Jun 26, 2017 | Homeschooling
Whenever I’m asked for homeschool advice, about daily routines, or about how I manage to stay sane as a homeschool mom, I always talk about the most important part of our homeschool day: our daily, afternoon quiet time. I honestly doubt I would be able to...
by Learning Mama | Jun 2, 2017 | Curriculum Reviews, Homeschooling
Are you looking for a way to add some creative fun for your children this summer? Something fun to do with them when it’s too hot to go outside? The perfect way to spend a raining summer day? Why not spend your summer experimenting and creating with mixed media...
by Learning Mama | May 17, 2017 | Homeschooling
This coming year’s homeschool curriculum choices have been the hardest by far for me. I pretty much had first through fourth grade mapped out in my oldest’s kindergarten year! She was an eager learner and I had myself a trustworthy guide in The Well...
by Learning Mama | May 1, 2017 | Homeschooling
“… brown paper packages tied up with string, these are a few of my favourite things!” I can’t be the only one who gets this stuck in my head when a package of books arrives in the mail! I was excited to receive our latest shipment of books from...
by Learning Mama | Apr 24, 2017 | Homeschooling
I’ve got one child that could sit snuggled up with mama on the couch for HOURS reading books. She loves reading, being read to, and reading to others. Sitting still for a story is not a struggle for her at all. I loved our read-aloud times! When it came time to...
by Learning Mama | Apr 13, 2017 | Curriculum Reviews, Homeschooling
My oldest daughter has been begging to get a puppy for a few years now. She just loves playing with dogs and petting them. She’s fallen even deeper in love with dogs since having a visit with her Nana while she was dog-sitting. And she was ecstatic when we...
by Learning Mama | Apr 12, 2017 | Uncategorized
Yet again, I’ve jumped at the chance to review Sally Lloyd Jones’ latest book. I want all of her books in our family collection! To be quite honest with you though, before receiving Found, I wondered if I might find it a little redundant. You see, Found...
by Learning Mama | Apr 10, 2017 | Homeschooling
It’s that time of year again — and homeschool conventions, vendor halls, and curriculum planning for the next school year are well underway. Have you too been checking out all the curriculum options, either in person or online? Have you been asking all...
by Learning Mama | Apr 3, 2017 | Homeschooling
We have incorporated quite a few different things in our Morning Time over the years. We’ve covered devotions, singing, praying, poetry, memorization, picture study, music appreciation, Latin, French, and even math (though never all of those at the same time!)....
by Learning Mama | Mar 27, 2017 | Uncategorized
Let me confess to you straight out that I tend to have a bias towards the older, time-tested children’s classics. I love them! But I do realize that all classics were new at some point in time and that just because an author is now dead does not mean their books...
