As my oldest heads into the tween/middle school years she desires to do more work independently. This makes my momma heart happy and a little sad at the same time. However, I know this independence needs to happen, and love nurturing the desire. Our main homeschool curriculum is Heart of Dakota, and while I love […]
Independent Learning with Rosetta Stone
My daughter has had a huge desire to learn Spanish for the past few years. We tried out a few other foreign language curriculums, but none quite fit our needs. I wanted something that was fairly independent, easy to use (for mom and child) and would most importantly-work! I found these things in Rosetta Stone! […]
Why We Chose Heart of Dakota
Update 2019: This is a super old post, but it still brings a lot of traffic. So, I wanted to add an update. We are no longer using this program. You can see why in this post. However, I have NOTHING negative to say about Heart of Dakota. In fact, I have considered it time […]
How do I Choose a Curriculum?
I’m teaming up with the iHomeschool bloggers this week for an awesome link up titled “Ask the Experts”. Each of us chose a topic we think our readers want to know more about. My choice? How do I Choose a Curriculum? Choose it with EYES WIDEN OPEN. Curriculum never ever loves you back, it […]
Our Homeschool Curriculum 2015-2016
Eeek! It is homeschool curriculum shopping season! This means that chances are you are knee deep in homeschool curriculum catalogs, that you have a going shopping list, and have been scouring online curriculum sites. I know I have been, and I was super excited when our box day finally came! Some of our homeschool curriculum choices for […]