Our family has been talking a lot lately about volunteerism and how helping out in our community is an important part of being a good citizen. This made it easy to think of what I would write this week for the Five Minute Friday link-up prompt, TURN. Start Our grandson has been working on his Big Life Journal recently and…
Thought I would share some pictures from our visits to Mount Rushmore today. For more Wordless Wednesday entries please click here to visit Life at Rossmont.
Have you ever felt like you needed a little help in teaching your kids a new concept? Or perhaps in creating worksheets or exams to go along with (and enhance) your current lessons. This happens to me all the time so I was happy to have the opportunity to review Help Teaching Pro from HelpTeaching.com over the past few weeks. We received…
As we brave the winter that never seems to end, we’ve had the opportunity to review Exploring Creation with Human Anatomy and Physiology from Apologia‘s Young Explorer Series. Exploring Creation with Human Anatomy and Physiology is an elementary level Anatomy and Physiology book that gives glory to God as children discover all that goes on in their bodies from their heads to the nails…
As my readers will know, I’ve participated in various blog events such as the 12 Days of Blogmas, but this is the first time I’m taking the plunge and doing a blog hop. As a member of the Homeschool Review Crew, I’ve begun to write a lot more regularly on my blog so I decided to challenge myself to write…
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These days my life is filled with schoolbooks, field trips, writing, and reviewing homeschool products. A far cry from my “other” life where I spent my days sorting helping folks find their way through government services and regulations (when I wasn’t working on some political campaign or other.) My life has certainly changed (for the better in my opinion) and…
I am a big supporter of children learning cursive handwriting. In fact, I have a hard time understanding why folks would think the ability to communicate with paper and pen is a skill our children no longer require. I remember hearing about a 17-year-old who couldn’t sign his passport application. His father was incredulous, how can you be graduating from…
During one of the coldest years in recent memory, Creation Illustrated provided us with two of their unit studies plus access to the magazines to go with for us to review. The amusing part? One of those unit studies was The Intricacies of Snow! You would think that we folks living in southern Alberta would know pretty much everything there…
Go Today’s five minute Friday prompt is settle. I have to admit I had to think about this one for a bit before I could even get started since “settling” was always something my father said I shouldn’t do. That I should always strive for more. As I grew older, I came to realize that this type of thinking can…