5 Reasons I Love Our Four Day Homeschool Week
5 Reasons I Love Our Four Day Homeschool Week with BookShark I am a BookShark Brand Ambassador and did receive curriculum in exchange for sharing details of their product. There are numerous reasons we homeschool our children, the main one being we want the...
Three Things I Love About BookShark’s Science Curriculum
Three Things I LOVE about BookShark’s Science Curriculum I am a BookShark Brand Ambassador and did receive curriculum in exchange for sharing details of their product. When we decided to homeschool my son, I wasn’t too excited about science. My husband is far more...
Teaching My Homeschooler To Read
Teaching My Homeschooler To Read My daughter is getting excited to learn to read. She has been working on learning her letters and we are gearing up to start Kindergarten with her soon. When we decided to homeschool my son I had a few hesitations, my main one being...
4 Mistakes I Have Made As a Homeschool Mom
4 Mistakes I Have Made as a Homeschool Mom I could write a book on all the mistakes I have made in our homeschool journey, but I don’t see the fun in that for anyone. So I wanted to give you some idea of the major stuff. And funny enough since every family is...
Imagination Place, Gadsden Alabama
We are a family that loves to go and do…. and museums are at the top of our list of favorites. A museum in Gadsden has quickly become one of our favorites. Imagination Place is located in the Mary Harden’s Center for Cultural Arts in Gadsden, Alabama. There are a...
Enhancing our American History Studies with a trip to Chickamauga Battlefield
When you hear of Chattanooga you likely think of the Incline Railway, you may want to “see Rock City”, or you might want to go to the Tennessee Aquarium. But have you thought of stepping back into history and visiting a Civil War Battlefield? On our most recent...
Top 5 Ways to Get Your Kid Reading
I don’t have to tell you how important reading is. Every parent knows the importance of being able to read. But how can we encourage our children without putting too much pressure on them? Our son began reading at an early age, and we were thrilled. But what...
STEM Gift Ideas
My son is a lover of all things Science, engineering, and technology! Not so much on the math part, but hey... I'll take whatever I can get. I wanted to share some of our favorite STEM gift ideas to help you with your science lover. Many of the toys we have purchased...
Our Simple Preschool Curriculum
We are a homeschool family. We started "baby school" with my son when he was 2. He learned his alphabet and then to count to ten. In no time at all he was wanting to write like mommy and daddy, so the search began to find some school books for him. At 3, I found the...
A Closer Look at our BookShark Curriculum
I have talked before about our homeschool curriculum, Bookshark. We love the simplicity of selecting exactly what we want and waiting for it to show up on our front porch. Bookshark also makes it easy as you don’t have to plan what to do each day. They schedule...