Woodwater Farmhouse

Welcome friends to a special Farmhouse Friday today.  I am excited to share a curriculum that I found that is fun and educational! This is not a new curriculum, but new to our homeschool.  Years ago, my sister in law passed on some school books and magazines that her son was no longer using and in the pile was was a few items from Highlights . They sat on a shelf for a while,until recently, and collected dust.  I finally got around to pulling some of it out and what I found was a gem!  There was this folder that said secret mission. I opened it and found a fun game/activity that I knew the girls would love.  After they completed it, I knew I had to look into ordering more for them.  Are you familiar with Highlights ?  I am sure you are.  We have used their magazines in our homeschool for years but never their adventure kits.  (in their own words..) For more than 70 years Highlights has been dedica...

Today I am coming to you from our homeschool room.  I wanted to chat a minute about a wonderful new curriculum we started using from  BJU Press .  Our Sammie, third grade, recently started Adventures in Reading 3A from BJU Press.  SHE LOVES IT!   My goals for Sammie were to foster the joy of reading and look at stories through a biblical worldview.  Although there are many more goals that BJU Press has for this curriculum such as: encourage fluency teach vocabulary in context enhance comprehension There is more than enough extra teaching information in the Teachers Key.   I am finding myself not even utilizing all the information they give you in the workbook.  We have only been doing the pages that apply to the stories we are reading. They give you extra pages for skills.  I have yet to use the Teacher's Toolkit CD that comes with this curriculum.  That kit contains many aids to assis...

Not Back to School - Week 1 - Curriculum Week This is the month I so enjoy finding new blogs, Facebook pages, watching how others school. So many other bloggers and homeschoolers are linking up to share a little of their personal choices for their homeschool for the upcoming year! This year, we "look" a little different then we have in the past. We have been gravitating more towards "unschooling" than what I would call "traditional homeschooling".  I have lost the battle with trying to mimic a little "school" in our home and that is fine with me. (although I have some great fun photos for next week for the Not Back to School - School Room post!) Our children's learning style is more hands on, "out in the world" type learning and honestly so is mine!  We are learning all together in some areas and in most all others they will be working separately. I have a tough time "labeling" the grades of our...