You can get discounts if you do a search for ACE rather than purchasing it directly from School of Tomorrow, because you can order it from a warehouse, not from the publisher. I have done that before and gotten old versions of the curriculum. The new versions are better, though, so I might not do that again. BUT it might not matter for first grade. It was the older grades that I didn’t like the former
Many of you have heard about how my son Micah got his Bachelors Degree in Social Sciences by the time he was 18. The way he did college is:cheaper
more protected from the world
quicker
more flexible.Micah’s entire degree only cost $8,000. God was so good!
Now Micah is getting a Master of Arts in Theological Studies at Midwestern Baptist Theological Seminary, all online. It is a very conservative semin
Q: This is my first time to home-school all three of my kids. I am nervous but excited. Mostly I am worried about discipline. Could you give me an idea of class rules or some system to keep order?
A: One thing is that you can have a schedule like:
8-8:30 Kid 1 plays with Kid 2 while Mom works with Kid 3
8:30-9 Kid 1 plays with Kid 3 while Mom works with Kid 2
9-9:30 Kid 2 plays with Kid 3 while Mom works wi
Someone asked me what videos we watch and where we fast-forward and mute. So here are the ones we watch as a family, and on date night the younger ones often watch Barney and the Japanese equivalent — “Shimajiro”.
Mary Poppins — no fast forwards for us except for a little scary part.
Milo and Otis – no fast forwards unless little ones are easily scared.
Chariots of Fire — fast
I (Hannah) started an online program through Oak Brook College this fall. I am studying to become a certified paralegal, which is like a lawyer’s top assistant. I am not sure if I will ever use the degree since the main thing I want to do with my life is to homeschool and train my children. If I do ever use this degree, I can work from home! Right now, I am really enjoying what I am learning.
This would
So ….. I am really writing on this subject??! Our kids have been struggling with this lately, so it is kind of comical for me to appear like the expert on this subject!
A couple of ideas that HAVE been working this week because we have really been cracking down on bickering:
If anyone has an unkind voice toward a sibling, I have been asking them to bring be a bar of soap and stick their tongue out. One swi
I love to hear my children praise each other, but too often I hear criticism. I think that is normal when people live in the same home!
One thing that has worked for us is to have Praising Contests. We certainly still have bickering and criticism, but hopefully it helps the atmosphere of our home to at least have a praise once in a while from a sibling!
We have a laminated page on the fridge that says:
Micah:__
ACE – We mostly use these cute booklets for Math, but we use them for other subjects, too. Especially if you have many children, do not make homeschooling too hard on yourself! This is an example of a great curriculum that makes your life much easier.I wouldn’t recommend a Christian school that uses this curriculum because you have to sit in cubicles all day and do nothing creative! But they a
I have a child who is dyslexic and has ADHD. Two books that have really helped me are:
Right-Brained Children in a Left-Brained World: Unlocking the Potential of Your Add Child by Jeffrey Freed and Laurie Parsons
and
Overcoming Dyslexia by Dr. Sally Shaywitz
(also for anybody with reading difficulties)
Dr. Shaywitz suggests going back over the more difficult phonics concepts such as prefixes, suffixes, dipthongs,
Be a missionary!
On the mission field we had some great experiences. We traveled, saw many countries, ministered as a family, and learned how to be best friends with each other.
There really were no peers really because Japanese kids went to cram school in the evenings and had public school on Saturdays. Our kids didn’t notice that they were being deprived of peers because they had each other to play with
