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Favourite Christmas Books
There is nothing better than getting some cosy pyjamas on, sipping on hot chocolate and cuddling up by the fire with your favourite Christmas books
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Novel Study – Britfield & the Lost Crown
We love books and a good novel study around here. When we were given the opportunity to review Britfield & the Lost Crown, we were very excited. Our adventure has only begun.
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Using Sight Words – Crafty Classroom Review
Sight words can be a wonderful introduction to reading for your child. Luckily, we have been able to review a program from The Crafty Classroom all about sight words!
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Struggling to Learn to Read? Check out this Dyslexia Gold Review
Is your child struggling to learn to read? Dyslexia Gold is a program designed to help them improve their reading and spelling skills.
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Jump In – Homeschool Writing Review
Today I am reviewing Jump In, 2nd Edition - digital edition. This textbook, from Writing with Sharon Watson, is a homeschool writing lesson guide for your students. It works through the complexities of writing essays and the finer points of writing in small increments as to not overwhelm students.
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7 Tips to Improve Reading Comprehension
Does your child love to read but struggles to comprehend what they have read? Check out these 7 tips to improve reading comprehension from an unschool mom.
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The Critical Thinking Co. Review
The Critical Thinking Co. has created a learning resource for aspiring detectives in your family. This review is for the Critical Thinking Detective - Vocabulary Book 2; an engaging way to introduce new vocabulary words and critical thinking.
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Children’s Books Recommendation – Large Family Library Haul
As minimalists, we do not like to keep a lot of items in our home. We do, however, absolutely love books. From picture books, storybooks, novels, and information books – we love them all. As a large family, if we were to buy everyone books to cover every topic that every child was interested in, we would have WAY too many books. In order to fulfil this love of books, we take advantage of our local library. These books were all greats, and definitely are children’s books we would recommend. We have 4 tiny humans who all read at different levels and enjoy different types of children’s books. Every time…
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Resources For New Readers
Teaching a young child to read can be the most rewarding and the most frustrating thing you can do as an educator. All of my children have learned to read in different ways and at different ages. We do not like to push this skill, as we believe that a stressful beginning to this journey will hinder the enjoyment down the road. We like skills to develop naturally and on pace with the individual child. One misconception about unschooling is that we do not teach our children. This is not true. We just do not teach our children in a traditional, curriculum related way. If you want to hear the…
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Wonder by RJ Palacio – Book Review
Wonder is a story about August (Auggie) Pullman. August was born with craniofacial abnormalities. The story takes place as August enters the 5th grade. He had been homeschooled by his mother, but now he will join his classmates at Beecher Prep. Wonder is all about his journey through the fifth grade. I bought Wonder over a year ago. We were doing a scholastic book order through our school board and I asked the boys to pick out whichever books they wanted from the catalogue. One of the boys had circled Wonder. I ordered the book not knowing anything about it. When we got the book, I read the inside cover…
