Giveaway in the post below – scroll down for Yuletide pleasure… The boy’s study of fungi in biology happened to coincide with a dearth of decent mushrooms in my local store. I figured homeschooling was the perfect excuse to order a kit from Back to the Roots, something I’ve wanted to try for a while. [...]

Don’t forget to scroll down for giveaways… We had a fun day at the South Carolina State Museum recently. I get a bit obsessive over miniatures and these are part of a large display. (Oh, the irony.) Can’t you imagine yourself there? Or as one of Doolittle’s Raiders?

Carlito C. Caterpillar’s Math House Games is based on Domenico Marcario’s Sensory Math Teaching System that teaches concepts in quantity, numeration and operations. The 20 games lend themselves well to homeschooling but would also be terrific for teaching or reinforcing math skills after school in a very nonthreatening way. They are games, in the truest [...]

OK, not so much, but it was weird. After violent thunderstorms last week, my husband went out to leave for work, only to find a bullfrog in our driveway. We occasionally have a toad, but never a bullfrog. The closest body of water is the pond on the golf course a mile away. Of course, [...]

I’m a big fan of Sal Khan. Perhaps because he isn’t (wasn’t) an educator by trade, he has been able to look at learning and concept mastery in a way that turns the traditional education paradigm on its ear. Yay for that.  As someone who had to jump into educating a child through full-on survival [...]

We attended the South Carolina Philharmonic’s youth concert this week. After we are done homeschooling, I am going to need to borrow some kids so I can keep doing things like this. “Fanfare for the Common Man” at lunch time in the middle of the week? Yes, please. For the boy, there was a hearty [...]

It turns out that the boy can spot an outdoor sculpture from a mile away, too. He stopped to view (and pose next to) this one outside the Koger Center for the Arts in Columbia, SC. It raises the age old question: Is it better to be the statue or the bird?

Head on over to Heart of the Matter to read my review of The Narnia Code (DVD) and enter to win your own copy. Go ahead. Still here? OK, then. The boy and I really enjoyed this DVD so much. It’s a terrific and compelling puzzle. If you are a bibliophile, I think you will [...]

I have been looking for a geography program to meet our needs and either I haven’t looked diligently enough or it doesn’t exist. So, we are doing our own thing, one continent at a time. I thought it best to start with the easiest continent (from a detail perspective): Antarctica. In hindsight, perhaps studying a [...]

Participating in Amanda’s this moment project: {this moment} – A Friday ritual – capturing a moment from the week. Exploring an exhibit on C.S. Lewis, Tolkien and the rest of the Inklings (and being very interested in it…).