‘Tis finally finished! It’s our new cursive handwriting book, the Script-n-Scribe Letter Connector! This book is a “level 2” book for students transitioning from programs that introduce cursive letter formation (such as the Roller Coaster Writer) to other more advanced handwriting resources. In cursive handwriting, an intermediate step is often needed for students as […]
American History Loop Schedule
It dawned on me this week that I didn’t really talk about our loop schedule when I posted our American History Plans! Since this is the one terrific tool that keeps the good, true, and beautiful in our schedule, I thought I’d mention it in greater detail. Our loop schedule has been greatly simplified for […]
Early America History Trip: Northeastern Loop
We’ve finished 48 of 48. Talk about #scheduleinterrupted! When I started looking at our upcoming summer activities this summer, it dawned on me that we’d have to interrupt the end of our school year to go on the trip we’d been planning for this summer. So… it’s been quiet here for over a month due […]
American History CC Cycle 3 Reading Plans
For a more thorough study of CC Cycle 3-related content, we recommend using our Mission Lasting Liberty curriculum plan instead of these CC Cycle 3 American History Reading Plans. Note: After designing curriculum plans for over a decade, we’ve developed a Christian Classical Curriculum series called Mission: Great Commission, which integrates the study of the […]
American History Read Alouds
Of all that I share here on this website, searching through books to develop our reading plans is what I spend the most time doing. My hope is to choose books that our family cherishes reading together (and your family cherishes as well, should you choose to use our reading plans!). Here I share our […]
American History Picture Books
Welcome to our family’s list of favorite picture books focused on American history and geography, anatomy, chemistry, and fine arts. After investing in many books over the past several years, we’ve decided to let you in on what our favorites have been! After many hours of reading books, we’ve selected the following books as our […]
Art Appreciation through Art History
Art study is one of those things that often gets shoved to the side in our home. Every semester I set out to do better in my follow-through with our art study plans, only to later find the semester wrapping up with our family having completed only a fraction of what I had intended. (Anyone […]
Our favorite reading curriculum and why
Flash back six years. In our first years of homeschooling, few things frightened me more than teaching a struggling child to read. (This fear was almost as bad as the thought that maybe our toddlers would never be potty-trained.) Although our first son had picked up on reading quickly, I fought feelings of inadequacy when, […]
American History Leveled Readers
Welcome to our list of American history leveled readers! This collection includes books related to U.S. history with text and vocabulary that young children can easily read and understand. Although we own many of the books on this list, we don’t own them all. The links here are affiliate links, which means I earn a […]