Homeschooling for His Glory

Today, I have a great product to share with you. Some of you might have heard about it before and even used it, but let me reiterate what you may have heard already because this is a product worth checking out if you have not already. NotebookingPages.com  is a company that offer a wide variety of notebooking pages (as the name suggest) for all of your homeschool needs. We were blessed to receive a Notebooking Pages Lifetime Membership .  Homeschooling and teaching your kids at home can take many, many forms, one of which being notebooking. Notebooking is a way of learning that allows your student to recall what they are learning and appropriating it by writing or drawing about it. That is why notebooking is mainly formed of what they called notebooking pages. NotebookingPages.com is a great ressources for all your notebooking needs. It covers: Bible and Character Study History (Ancient, Medieval, Renaissance, Reformation, Modern) Science Geography with pa

As a Christian family, it is very important to us that our children know their Bible and be quite literate of the content contained therein. Veritas Press has come up with a pretty cool online program that can help with that: VeritasBible.com. VeritasBible.com is an online subscription program that teaches your students about what's in Bible. It takes you through the stories of the Bible starting from Genesis through to the New Testament. Once you get an account, you can create different profiles for your kids and each child can then go through it at their own pace. You get to choose which part of the Bible to focus on (Genesis to Joshua, Judges to Kings, or the Gospels). Being a firm believer in starting from the beginning, I had the boys start at Genesis. I had them use the program on a daily basis. The program is set up like a road map. Each stop represents a lesson, and the lessons are grouped by themes or events such as: Creation The Fall Cain and Abel Enoch

Planning is not my strong point. I love the concept, but not the following through part. I like to lay out what it is that we will be doing for any given year, but the follow- through and the keeping track is another story. That said I recently was given access to a 1 year subscription to an online planning and recording tool: MySchoolYear.com. They have put out a program called My School Year (Homeschool Record Keeping) to help homeschoolers set and keep track of their school year, as the name suggests. So what is My School Year and how does it work? My School Year is an online record keeping program is pretty for homeschoolers. It is an online tool that allows you to keep track of what is happening in your homeschool and how the different components of your homeschool are progressing. I found it a pretty simple and straight forward program. if you are a planner at heart, it is not difficult to figure out how the program works. Once you get your login set up, you add the chil

As I mentioned before on this blog, Homeschool curricula abound. One can become very overwhelmed as the plethora of material that are out there for you to chose from. Math is not immune to this abundance of resources, especially online products. Today I am here to talk to you about one of these: LearnBop . When it first came up for review I knew nothing about it. So I had to customize myself to this program. LearnBop is an online Math curriculum that offers a grade 3-12 program called  LearnBop for Families . They offer two types of subscriptions, one for 1 student and one for multiple students up to 4. We got the 2-4 student subscription. I decided to use LearnBop wih both my children (grade 6 and 7). First I had them take the suggested test (called warm up) corresponding to their grade that is supposed to assess where they are at and what learning gaps they need to fix, or as they would refer to it, what building blocks they need to understand before they dive into the n

I am always excited about receiving Language Arts curriculum. One of our latest product for review came from Progeny Press . I got a chance to try out  one of their Middle School Study Guide: Give Me Liberty E-Guide .                           Progeny Press offers a great way for kids from Elementary to High School to study literature and work on literary analysis. I used this with my 5th Grader, just entering Middle School. I choose to use the novel Give Me Liberty (gueared towards grade 6-8), because we were just finishing our study of the Revolutionary War in our History. The story is about a slave boy who was taken away from his family and how he had to learn to cope with his new surroundings. These guides require you to obtain the book and then use the guide, either as a download or on CD. My son enjoyed reading the book but thought that, after chapter 12, there was too much History, at least to his liking, after chapter 12. He was quite fine with most of the exercises, th

Reading and reading comprehension are two skills that every parent want their kids to master. As homeschooling parent we stress over these and are always looking for ways to improve them. If you are one of those parents, or actually in need of a program to help you in this, well, I have a product for you to check out. Members of the crew were recently granted a one year membership to MaxScholar 's amazing MaxScholar Reading Intervention Program . Max Schoolar is an online reading program geared towards kids K-12. Specifically developed to help students who have Dyslexia, learning disabilities, ADHD, processing problems, or are just struggling to read, MaxScholar delivers way more than it promises. It is made up of multi-sensory exercices and games that keep your children engaged and learning, all the while improving their reading and reading comprehension skills. The crew got the option of reviewing their K-2 program, or the total package offered in the MaxGuru program. I

It is planning time for many homeschoolers, and we on the Schoolhouse review crew have a great product we want to let you know about. The Old Schoohouse has come up with a planner just for you homechool moms. They call it the Hey Mama! Print Schoolhouse Planner 2016-2017 . As a planner junkie, even if I have a hate/love relationships with planning,  I personally find it very handy and useful. First off I find this planner attractive to the eye. I love the pretty pictures and homey feel it has. I also love all the yearly calendars it comes with, right at the beginning of the planner. You have 2016, 2017, 2018 covered. The planner itself starts in July and ends in June. Each month takes 2 pages and has lots of space to write up what needs to be done. On top of the dated planning calendar, it also contains undated weekly planning pages, also spread over two pages. These are my favorites. I can write the days of the week in them and plan my subjects. The spaces for these are also wi

Today I have a great product for you to check out! We recently got the chance to review an online K-6 product called Essential Skills Advantage . It has been a blessing for our homeschool. We receive their Complete Home Learning Suite for review.     What is ESA? ESA is a self-paced curriculum that covers reading, Writing, Science, Spelling, Language & Grammar, as well as Geography. The whole curriculum contains about 43 individual programs, 998 learning units. This program is quite extensive in scope. Note though, on the screen to the right, that not all grades are covered depending on the subject. ESA is easy to sign up for, and easy to use. Once you are logged in you choose your grade level and your topic, and start going through the different units for that particular topic. I had the boys, grade 5 and grade 7, focus on the Geography and Writing units. My grade 5, because his geography knowledge was terrible, and my grade 7 to cover any learning gaps that he h