Mid Year Homeschool Review: What’s Working and What’s Not
Close your eyes and imagine it's August or September. Your bookshelves and homeschool supplies are nicely organized, and the spines on your teacher's manuals are barely cracked. You've decided on this year's curriculum, and you're ready to go: it's going to be an...
Snowy Books for Snowy Days: Great Winter Picture Books
Winter really is the reader's season, isn't it? There's nothing better than being snowed in with a stack of books and a cup of hot cocoa! Each year I enjoy filling our book basket with our favourite winter picture books, as well as adding fun new finds. If you're...
How to Keep Warm During Nature Study This Winter
If you're anything like me, you may find it difficult to be consistent with Nature Study once the temperature drops and the snow starts to fly. Some years, I abandon our nature studies and hold on to the hope of spring while watching my children play outside through...
10 Excellent Early Chapter Books for Newly Independent Readers
Whether your child laboured over their phonics lessons, or took to reading like a fish to water, at some point, they are ready for more than levelled readers but not able to handle the more mature, lengthy, and challenging literature selections. While it is extremely...
My Favourite Reviews of 2016
A great blessing and privilege of being a blogger, and especially a homeschool blogger, is having the opportunity to do reviews. After counting all of my reviews from 2016 I was amazed that I had completed 22! These were books, curriculum, digital subscriptions, and...
Learning Mama’s Top Posts of 2016
Tomorrow marks exactly 2 years since I hit publish on my very first blog post! I have learned a lot in the last two years, both about homeschooling AND blogging, and I'm so happy to be able to share this incredible ride with you! That so many people have been reading...
2016: My Reading Year in Review
About this time last year I posted about my 2016 reading plan. This was the first year I had ever planned my reading in advance, or had any kind of reading goals. I'm going to come right out and say it here at the beginning of this post -- I did not read each of the...
Remember & Return {Book Review}
I can still remember the freshness of the very first time I ever read through the Bible. Everything was so new to me! I could easily spend an hour reading the word, taking notes, being totally in awe of all that I was discovering about the Lord Jesus within those...
Book Themed Gift Ideas for Bringing Stories to Life through Play
One of my children's favourite things to do is to imagine that they are the characters in the stories we read. When learning about ancient Egypt, Greece, and Rome, I would often find them designating someone (or a doll or action figure) to be god or goddess of this or...
Dictation: How Memory and Mental Pictures Build Writing Skills
Despite the plethora of book reports, journals, poetry, short stories, and writing prompts being used in schools, students continue to be unprepared for skilled writing in high school and college. We hear this lament from college professors over and over again -- we...
