As part of The Schoolhouse Review Crew I received Teaching the Classics from Institute for Excellence in Writing to review. The Institute for Excellence in Write (IEW) offers literature, writing, spelling and grammar products for students of all ages. Teaching the Classics A Socratic Method for Literary Education is a literature seminar for parents and teachers. You…
Nothing major happened in my kitchen this week. Unless you count meals and snacks for everyone! On Saturday I said to hy husband – out loud – that I was so tired of coming up with meals every day. I’m just feeling so burnt out. It’s not easy coming up with all the meals and…
As part of the Schoolhouse Review Crew, I received PreScripts Cursive Passages and Illuminations from Classical Conversations to review. Classical Conversations says on their website that The purpose of education is to know God and to make Him known. I couldn’t agree more! Classical Conversations helps parents provide a classical education for their children. They recently introduced…
It’s time for another Saturday on the Farm the View from My Front Porch. It’s been raining for days here in Kentucky. In fact, it was raining when I took these pictures this afternoon. We’re not having flooding here, but parts of our yard has standing water on it. According to the radar, it looks…
Well, it’s been pretty quiet here since last weeks double homeschool high school graduation. Our older two children had separate graduations. While a double graduation was special, I’m glad our younger two children will have separate graduations. It’s much easier to make sure that their graduation is what they want it to be if there is…
It’s time for me to pick a new Bible memory verse, 1 John 4:4. I think that Bible memorization is important for adults, too, not just children. I try to memorize the verses I post. If sometimes, life prevents me from memorizing the whole verse, I have at least become familiar with the content of…
In the kitchen last week…..it seems I didn’t do anything major. I did spend a couple of days getting everything ready for the graduation party on Saturday. It certainly does take awhile when you make everything from scratch. But we had a great party, and now we’re moving onto the 4th of July. If your…