Homeschooling for His Glory

It has been proven that learning a foreign language can do wonders for the development of kids. Finding a program to do that is not an easy task. I am also up for trying new ones and we had that very opportunity come up recently on the crew through Middlebury Interactive Languages . As a French speaker I desire for my kids to speak French, so I always tend to favor French, and therefore got to review the full first semester of the French Course . What is Middlebury Interacive Languages? Middlebury Interactive Languages is an online foreign language course. They offer foreign language learning in Spanish, French, Chinese and German. Some languages cover all grades (K-12), the others start at grade 3 up to grade 12, with some advanced placement courses as well. All of the courses are online so you will need a computer to go through the program. This is an interactive language learning program. It is divided into units, each made up of 6 lessons. Each unit is introduced

Looking for an attractive, engaging e-learning program for your kids, read on. We recently received a free account from Standard Deviants  Accelerate   to the Standard Deviants Accelerate Homeschool Courses  (SDA) program, and we have thoroughly enjoyed using it. What is SDA?  SDA is an accelerated online learning program. The program offers the following courses: Arithmetic – Grades 3+  Fundamental Math – Grades 4+  Earth Science – Grades 6+  Nutrition – Grades 6+ Algebra – Grades 7+  Biology – Grades 7+  Chemistry – Grades 9+  English Comp. – Grades 9+  U.S. History – Grades 9+  AP* Biology – Grades 11+ AP Chemistry – Grades 11+  AP* U.S. Government & Politics – Grades 11+  AP* U.S. History – Grades 11+ AP  Eng. Composition – Grades 11+ -  *AP stands for Advance Placement What these are are videos with very engaging participants making these topics very interesting. The videos contains the lessons, with full transcript available for print, and are tau

Friday is on us again. It is Thanksgiving week-end here in Canada, and there is much to be thankful for. 1. Electives have started this week and the boys were happy with their classes: Basketball and Build-it projects for the both of them as well as Finance for Zach and Chess (again) for Joho. 2. Our school is going along slowly but steadily. I am happy to report that there is progress with my middle schooler on the matter of diligence and getting his work done in a timely fashion. Still lots of maturing to do when it comes to precision and attention, but I am counting my blessings and recognize the progress. Thank you Lord! 3 . This is what I spend half of my morning today doing, as three library discs got stuck in the machine. I thank the Lord that Joho and I managed to get them out after lots of figuring out. 4. The boys have been enjoying some cool books recently: 5. Joho had a birthday last Saturday. He turned 9. Where did the time go? The boy enjoyed s