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Bring Big Screen Magic Home with Movies For Families
Raise your hand if your family loves documentaries and educational films as much as mine does! All 5 of us adore them. I am beyond excited to share with you a brand new online streaming platform geared toward families like ours that LOVE big beautiful educational films. Movies for Families takes the magic of IMAX and brings it into the comfort of your own home! As a homeschool Mama I am always looking for ways to bring our homeschool lessons to life. Adding Movies For Families is such an easy way to do that. Whether you are learning about the ocean, Greece, or Vincent Van Gogh, Movies for Families has…
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Drop in to The Booknerd Cafe!
Calling all Booknerds!! Have we got a place for you! My dear friend, Arlene, and I have co-created a fabulous Facebook Group called The Booknerd Cafe. It is just for booknerds! If you are a booknerd, bookworm, book hoarder, booksniffer…whatever you want to call it…this is the place for you! Arlene and I both had a vision in our minds of a place where bookish homeschoolers could gather and talk about our favorite subject. No, not our children…BOOKS! I’m sure your kids are great too…but…BOOKS! The Booknerd Cafe is a place to come together to discuss books, share book recommendations, to talk about literature-based homeschool curriculum, to share a virtual…
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A Review of Evan-Moor’s Reading Comprehension Fundamentals Grade 6
I was recently given the chance to review Evan-Moor’s Reading Comprehension Fundamentals for Grade 6. I received this book for free in exchange for my honest review. As a huge fan of Evan-Moor products, I again jumped at the chance to try this product and can’t wait to share it with you! As a family of books worms, reading is a huge part of our school day. We start every day with a read aloud, have a book based history and geography curriculum, and the kids read for an hour to themselves every day! With that being said, we haven’t really implemented any sort of formal reading comprehension assessment! Reading…
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Our Secular Morning Basket
I have a confession. I thought that morning baskets were totally off the table because we are secular homeschoolers. For real! I don’t know why! I think it stemmed from the fact that the only morning baskets I had seen were centered around bible study…so I just put the idea out of my head! Fast forward to this summer, I was re-introduced to the idea of morning baskets. It quickly hit me that a morning basket could be anything that I wanted it to be. We could include anything we wanted to and take out anything that we didn’t want to cover. No two morning baskets have to look the…