I found yet another website that I had not discovered before called Lesson Planet. I received a free membership for a couple of months for review and boy was I surprised…. Read more »

Artistic Pursuits was given to me recently to review. I have a daughter in 8th grade, so I gave it to her to look over and use. She loves art, so I thought this program would be a good fit for her.

Artistic Pursuits is a non-consumable art program Read more »

You wouldn’t think that a homeschool Mom would need a program like Graphics Toolbox, but after you use it Read more »

I’m sure many public school teachers have heard of ABC Teach, but I don’t  know how many homeschoolers have ever seen this great site. You can find over 5000 pages of free worksheets and pages you can print to use for homeschooling. If you like what you see and want even more, Read more »

Originally posted 2009-10-30 08:57:09. Republished by Blog Post Promoter

I had never thought to use magazines for homeschooling until the other day when I went to throw one out. My son said that he wanted to use it. He wanted to cut out the pictures and make a book. “What a great idea.” I thought. Read more »

I talked, in a previous post, about the art seminar I took.  This time I’m going to explain how that seminar relates to our homeschool music curriculum.

I was talking to some moms at the seminar about one of my daughters that I think is talented in music but hates practicing and lessons.  She used to listen to music and then go over to the piano and poke out the notes until she was able to play the song.

Now we were to the point where she couldn’t even stand sitting down at the piano.  What had I done wrong?  After listening to the concepts talked about at this art seminar Read more »

I have collected some Thanksgiving resources for you to use this season.  I will be posting more right up until Thanksgiving.  Let me know what you think.

Here’s a great site – Thanksgiving crafts for ages K-3.  In order to get the PDFs of the booklets you have to be a member of their site, but you can still get many great ideas here.  There are all kinds of craft projects Read more »

A homeschool art curriculum sounds like such a good idea. I’m not creative, nor can I draw, so this is even more appealing to me. My views of art were challenged when I recently attended an art seminar presented by a local art therapist.  She works with all kinds of people from children up through senior citizens.  This day she was talking to homeschool moms.

One of the things she shared with us was that we are born 100% creative Read more »