Schoolhouse Teachers all-in-one Homeschool Buy 1 Get 1 year free sale!!

Looking for something quick and easy to get your school year started? 

SchoolhouseTeachers (The Old Schoolhouse Magazine, owner) has a great inexpensive option that is good for the entire family to use (one membership for all to use). Yet another useful home education tool provided by SchoolhouseTeachers is that it is set up by graded sections, pre/K & elementary, middle school and high school with drop down menus for all. You will find everything for homeschooling with topics such as logic, math, science, history, fine arts, Bible and many more electives as well as helps for the homeschool mom. 

Get in on the BUY 1 YEAR GET 1 YEAR FREE Sale!! Click here for more details and use PROMO CODE: SHARK20. The ENTIRE family can use 1 membership for 2 years!!! WHHHOOOO!!!!!!! You can get transcripts too.

Courses from SchoolhouseTeachers are a must for all homeschoolers, whether you are a boxed curriculum homeschooler, eclectic or unschooler this site has something for your student with 400+ classses. Our homeschool has tended towards the boxed curriculum (we have started branching out in recent years though) but it was always missing something. I’ve found what was missing and it was SchoolhouseTeachers.com, there are all sort of goodies to find on this site. 

It just so happens that my son was given an acoustic guitar as a gift and he has been getting library books on how to play the guitar, but they have been either way over his head or contained music that does not fit our family values. As we looked over the site we came across the guitar lessons.

Our son has only been using the guitar lessons from Schoolhouseteachers for about a week and a half and by no means is he jammin’ out on the guitar, but he is making music and not just noise anymore. LOL! 

A great feature of SchoolhouseTeachers site has unit for parents, it has a monthly menu feature and more.

Another area that I liked was the logic section. We have always struggled with teaching logic in our homeschool, so I was thrilled to see Logic on the drop down menu under middle school. I like how the lessons are set up so that my son can just go right in and get started. It has helped foster independence on his part. I know that we have a few years to go before college, but when I look at the SchoolhouseTeachers website, I’m thinking about how using this site will help our son out in the long run. Online college classes are the future for many of our children and what better way for them to be prepared than by teaching them in pre/k & elementary, middle school and high school with methods that they will continue to use down the road.

We plan to continue searching through all the goodies over the next year that SchoolhouseTeachers.com offers. Post and let me know what you think of the site and how it's enhanced your homeschool.

Get in on the BUY 1 YEAR GET 1 YEAR FREE Sale!! Click here for more details and use PROMO CODE: SHARK20. The ENTIRE family can use 1 membership for 2 years!!! WHHHOOOO!!!!!!! You can get transcripts too. Schoolhouse Teachers Sale!!

New Year & New Curriculum Ideas

The NEW YEAR can be full of new ideas for your homeschool!!

I have been given permission to share these ideas with you from Mary Beth a fellow homeschooling mom, she says that the first 3 ideas came from Chris Davis of Home School Marketplace, but the rest are her own. Long before I read Mary Beth's list I had come up with a similar listing for our homeschool and it's helped me through the years to revisit the list to make sure we are on target.
Mary Beth was answering the following question.

What curriculum do you like best and why?

1. What things did you do or learn in school that have served you well
in your adult life? (Be sure to include them in your curriculum.)

2. What things did you do or learn in school that have proven to have
been a waste of time? (Don't bother with these.)

3. What do you wish someone had taught you? (Be sure to include them.)

4. There is a reason God put these children in your home. What do you
suppose He has in mind for them that you and only you can equip them
for? (This is why your homeschool shouldn't look like everybody
else's.)

5. Imagine that you have a daughter. What kind of man would you want
her to marry? How can you raise your boys to be that type of man?
Think ahead to the day your child leaves home, whether it be for
marriage, college, work, or missions. Answer the following questions:

6. What skills, values, character qualities and faith foundations do
you want your child to have in order for you to be confident that he
is ready to face the world on his own? What can you do now to take
steps toward those goals?

7. What do you not want to regret when your children leave home?
If you look over these lists, you will see that you are well on your
way to a custom-designed curriculum for your family.

We can have a fresh start right now, if things are not working, think about how you can get things working.
How are you going to change things up in your homeschool this new year?

Where I've Been & What I Am Up To...

It's been a busy back to school time and I've had a very sore shoulder & neck that does not like me to type, all leftovers from 2 past car accidents (not my fault). Seems to flare up 1x or 2x per year. This time I can't get an appointment for physical therapy for 8 days, not appointments open  :O(    I've heard it will be even worse with ObamaCare. So for now I am on a pack of steroids (oh joy!), Aleve and muscle relaxants. All of which I can say has done NOTHING for the pain. Would appreciate your prayers on this one.

The other thing that has kept me away is my mother needs to be moved into some typed of assisted living and it's really hard to have to start taking things over for a parent. So I have been busy looking into that kind of stuff.

Young adult homeschooler has been doing well in his studies, he is enjoying his first college class and also learning about just how much of a workload college will be  ;-)

Here is what we are doing this year in our homeschool. Looks like a big year, but some of these are just semester classes.

Bible Answers In Genesis,
Video Text Interactive Algebra 1
Apologia Physical Science
Institute in Excellence in Writing for writing
Abeka English
Abeka Spelling,
Abeka Lit,
Abeka History/Geography,
Typing Abeka,
German
Computer class website design
Computer class in C#.

Moe

Blog News: What's New??

Well, coming up I have some really cool reviews for you! Can't wait to share some of the exciting curriculum reviews that will be coming your way this new school year.

 

We are in the midst of testing out and working through a math program and it's going really well so far...more details to come in October. So check back if you have a middle to high school aged child that needs something new and exciting for math.

Also working on a cool new family read-along (almost done with it).

A book just for homeschool Moms, I'm stalking the mail man for this one!! I can't wait to share it with you!!

A really neat board game that we are having lots of fun with and we can't wait to get a full understanding of play, because we want to take it to family game night next week!

And a few reviews of online classes!!

So much excitement to come!!