Homeschooling and living on a tight budget sometimes conflict. There just aren’t a lot of great “sales” on curriculum. There aren’t curriculum mega-stores offering 20% off all Language Arts on Fridays, or buy-one, get one free deals for math manipulatives. Have you ever BOUGHT math manipulatives?! They are what I consider to be a good investment. […]
Math Curriculum Review: Khan Academy
Several years ago I started hearing about these great math tutorial videos that you could watch on YouTube. This guy was posting them and everyone was raving about them. Well okay, maybe not everyone, but he was creating quite a buzz in homeschool circles. I checked out his site a couple of times and thought […]
Did YOU win the Ancient History unit?
This week has been fun and exciting! If you’re like me, you spent at least a fair bit of time looking into and entering all of the great used curriculum giveaways from the Curriculum Clean-Out over at Homeschool Creations! You DID enter some giveaways, right? I sure did! THIS CONTEST HAS CLOSED AND THE WINNERS […]
Something Borrowed: Saving Money on Curriculum
It seems like everyone around me is “building their home library”. My husband isn’t a big fan of the look of bookshelves. He makes remarks like, “When are you going to get rid of some of these books?” Owning all your own books is great, as long as you have the room and your spouse […]
7 Free Medieval Times E-Books
I am not, by nature, a frugal mom. I love a good deal, but I don’t spend hours and hours seeking them out. At least, not most of the time. When it comes to homeschool curriculum… well that’s another story all together. One of my most amazing “finds” on the internet has got to be public domain books.
Gearing up: OFE3
You know that a homeschool Mom is preparing to start school again when she stays up until 12:30am going through her book lists! That is exactly what I did last night. P (17) was babysitting, so I was actually waiting up for her, but my OFE3 book list is what occupied my time. We are […]
Old Fashioned Education’s History Sequence
In deciding which remaining books we need to finish, and where we will begin next year, I put together a little chart of An Old Fashioned Education’s history scope & sequence. So many ‘classical’ ed families follow a 4 year history rotation. I believe teaching history chronologically is helpful, but definitely not the only WAY. […]
Homeschooling on a Very Tight Budget
Curriculum can cost so much money! Let’s face it, we’ve all done it. You see that awesome, perfectly-packaged program at a conference or curriculum sale, and you think “THAT’S what I need! My kids will learn SO MUCH MORE with that program!” Then, as you drive home, it hits you: You just totally blew your […]
My New Laser Printer: How to Print E-books
I got my new laser printer!! Yes, yes I did. It actually showed up on Saturday, but besides taking it out of the box, I didn’t have time to do anything with it until late last night. It took me a few hours (YES HOURS) to get it set up! I have a factory reconditioned […]
Free Books and extras
I’m always on the lookout for free educational materials, particularly books! I came across Learning Island the other day. This site contains PDF books which are free to print from the site (no downloading allowed, sorry). There are “15-Minute Readers”, and books in many different genres! Reading levels are given for each title so that […]