Artistic Pursuits The Artistic Pursuits program is an excellent integration of art appreciation and practice. It must start with Volume 1, Art for Children: Building a Visual Vocabulary. As the foundational text for this curriculum, it teaches the various styles used by artists and instructs the child how to replicate the style. The lessons focus on the artistic [...]
Do you want your children to grow up being fond of reading? Here's a blog I wrote about raising readers—helping children develop their innate love and fondness of the written word. Enjoy! Our Story on Raising Readers I was not a reader as a child, but I knew that I wanted to raise readers even [...]
Apologia is a Christ-centered, award-winning homeschool curriculum. Their mission is to help homeschoolers learn, live, and defend their faith through their curriculum. Overview Exploring Creation with Marine Biology is a high school level, college-prep, lab science (Biology is a prerequisite) yet it is also captivating to teens that are not majoring in science. The course [...]
Stories stick and that makes them a great educational tool. Facts are more easily and accurately remembered when they are part of a story and there is no shortage of facts when it comes to math! In this blog, let's talk about how using picture books can make learning math more fun and meaningful. We [...]
The Bible contains the foundational stories of the Christian faith. The Christian Studies program is a kind of literature study of these stories. It is delivered in three parts. Book 1 The first is a K-2 enrichment book that is used with The Story Bible. This three-year program will read through all the Bible stories [...]
Easter Weekend - April 2nd-4th The Easter Egg A Tale for Easter The Garden, the Curtain, and the Cross The Garden, the Curtain, and the Cross - Coloring and Activity Book The Passion of the King of Glory National Wildlife Week - April 4th-10th Encyclopedia of Animals Kingfisher First Encyclopedia of Animals [...]
Subjects that are seen as "extra-curricular" can be the first to slide when life gets busy and sadly, I am guilty of this. You don't have to look very far to find research that will encourage you to make art a regular component of your homeschool life so I encourage you to think through how [...]
We have used several of these Bible Storybooks over the years and it would be a challenge to pick a favourite. It's important that our children hear the bible read to them on a regular basis as hearing the words, wisdom, and instruction over the years builds a strong foundation. What at times seems to [...]
It’s March and I live in British Columbia so when I look out my window it’s spring. I have a favorite season but overall, I simply get excited about the changes that all the seasons bring. A new season naturally brings changes to weather, wardrobe, and activities but I like to purposefully exhaust as many [...]
Gail Gibbons books are a favourite amongst homeschoolers and this trio is packed with information and great pictures. We'll be adding to our Solar System unit this year with some colouring pages, notebooking pages, and of course constructing the solar system is a classic homeschool activity. We've used balloons, lego, or playdough over the years [...]
The Center for Lit has done something amazing for teaching literature. You don’t need textbooks or analytical reviews. You just need to know how to ask the right questions. Their flagship product, Teaching the Classics is an eight-hour seminar for parents, teachers, and readers. It gives them a tool for reading literature that acts like [...]
Classical education is a new term for an old path. Over the last several years it is being rediscovered. It's the classic path, the path that was well travelled but somehow our adventurous natures took us beyond that path. As we try to rediscover how our Western Culture gave us a richness of beauty, truth [...]
