Homeschool Math Curriculum I’m so excited to tell you about my newest project, a homeschool math curriculum! I know I’m biased, but it is exactly what I always wanted for my own kids, but was never able to find. Let me tell you how it came to be. The Story Behind This Homeschool Math Curriculum Years ago, we homeschooled around the kitchen table and I “taught” (we homeschool moms know it doesn’t really look like that) all of the subjects. These days I’m more of a CEO (Chief Education Officer) finding my kids online or community classes to fill their schedules. However, I have always selfishly ..read more

Best Homeschool Calculus Class (I was compensated for my time, but all of the opinions contained within are my own. This post may contain affiliate links. Please read my disclosures for more information.) Is your child ready to earn college credits, but not quite ready to socialize with young adults on a college campus and all that entails? AP credits look great on a college transcript. Our Search for a Homeschool Calculus Curriculum I love math! It’s my favorite subject. My kiddos generally like it, too, even if they complain about it on occasion. We struck gold when, early on in ou ..read more

What is the best app to learn Spanish? (I was compensated for my time, but all of the opinions contained within are my own. This post may contain affiliate links. Please read my disclosures for more information.) My kids and I been studying Spanish in our homeschool for many years. We tried textbooks, but since I didn’t speak Spanish, that was like the blind leading the blind. Then we tried online Spanish classes with a Guatemalan school. That worked better than the textbooks, but they were busy so it was difficult to schedule classes for the same time every week and tough to remembe ..read more

Bring the Joy of Easter into Your Homeschool with Easter Learning Activities Can you believe Easter is right around the corner? Christmas and Easter are my favorite holidays. There are so many fun ways to bring the joy of Easter into your homeschool! We don’t celebrate the Easter bunny, or really even talk much about it (aside from the story The Country Bunny and the Little Gold Shoes, which is delightful!) but we don’t forbid it, either. We try to focus on the glorious gift of the atonement and the resurrection instead. We talk with our kiddos about how bunnies and eggs help us to remember th ..read more

Free Animal Bookmark Valentines Aren’t these adorable? The best part is how stinking rotten EASY they are! Since we homeschool, my kiddos don’t have a school class to hand out cards to. But we do usually attend a homeschool Valentine’s Day party. My kiddos also love to make each other Valentine’s cards and hand them out to their grandparents and a few of our elderly neighbors. It’s a fun tradition for them to make their Valentines while I read our favorite Valentine’s Day story, Somebody Loves You, Mr. Hatch. These are the easiest free, animal bookmark Valentines you will ever find. Just print ..read more

Trekking Through History Game Review Do you ever step back, watch your children working together, and marvel at how they can magically gamify anything? Weeding the garden turns into a fight against an unseen nemesis, mowing the lawn is an opportunity to send hidden messages to the spy living above the garage. Gamification is a kids’ superpower. (I was compensated for my time, but all of the opinions contained within are my own. This post may contain affiliate links. Please read my disclosures for more information.) Instead of fighting it, I’ve chosen to embrace it in our homeschool ..read more

Plan Your Homeschool My first year of homeschooling I had four kids, including an infant, ages five and under. We lived well below the poverty line and I probably don’t need to tell you that I received way too little sleep at night and, despite striving for perfection (or maybe because of it), was a little on the crazy side. Also, I was the first person I knew to ever homeschool. So I built the only thing I knew, styled after the government schools I’d grown up in — bottoms in a seat six hours a day, five days a week, nine months per year, with occasional holiday breaks. We were going to study ..read more

Father’s Day Card and Coupon Book Free Printable Father’s Day is almost here! One way to get your young children excited about Father’s Day fun is to help them surprise their dad with something they’ve made themselves! One of my favorite things about Father’s Day is the cards my littles always make him at church. Their Sunday school teachers always bring card-making supplies and help the kids make the FUNNIEST cards. We always get such a kick out of them that Sunday afternoon, and then the hubs stashes them away (he’s totally sentimental) for posterity. He has an awesome collection of Father’s ..read more

Father’s Day Popcorn FREE Printable It’s almost Father’s Day! Sometimes you just need a quick, easy and inexpensive way to let all of those special Dad’s in your life know that they are loved. Microwave popcorn fills the pill perfectly. This printable will literally take just a few seconds to print, cut in half, wrap around a package of popcorn, tape and sign. If you are prepping gifts for a whole group of dads, like those in your church congregation or neighborhood, these Father’s Day popcorn printables are PERFECT! On a daily basis we forget how lucky we are to have all of our amazing dads ..read more

Soda Pop Ties Father’s Day FREE Printable Whether you call this beverage “soda” or “pop”, the colorful ties in this FREE printable will make Father’s Day extra special for all of the dads in your life! The printable includes ties that say “World’s Best Pop” and “Dad, you’re SODA rific” in two sizes — one perfect for the smaller bottles of soda and a larger size meant for 2L soda bottles. I tried making them a couple of different ways and finally settled on what you see below because I thought it was the quickest and easiest way to make them will still being aesthetically pleasing. I printed th ..read more