Today I got an email saying this : Congratulations suburbangranola.com You won the blog contest ” “Rose Book of Bible Charts, Maps, and Time Lines” Please email me your address so I can ship. I was in shock for a minute. Seriously. I cannot believe that I actually won something.  Take...

I got a request for a post on computer based curriculum. I am so excited. I got a request! I wasn’t even sure anyone was really ready this thing.. We have used a computer based curriculum by Alpha Omega called Switched on Schoolhouse. I was very excited about getting it and really liked it for...

I thought I would throw together a list of the educational websites that we love to use in our homeschool. This list will change periodically as I come across new ones. Please comment if a link is no longer working. All sites are free unless noted otherwise. For Teachers: www.bakersbookstore.com This...

Do you ever wonder what all those other homeschool moms are using are using to teach their kids? When I first got starting homeschooling we didn’t have much money and we were really just doing preschool so I just made up as we went along. It never occurred to me that I needed a “program”...

I love History. And I really love The Story of the World. by Susan Wise Bauer. It is by far the best History curriculum I have come accross.  It is a chronilogical study starting in 5000 bc that goes all the way up to 1994.  It is broken into four volumes that take about a year each to complete. You...

The best way to teach a young child to love to read is to read to them often, starting very young. I read to my kids even if I think they are not paying attention. Toddlers will mimic everything you do (good and bad) and it is no different with reading. There are tons of “teach your baby to read”...

When I started homeschooling , NumberOne was only about 2. I didn’t actually know that I was homeschooling, in fact I had never heard of it. One is a super-smart kid and totally in to everything so I was just trying to keep her occupied and out of trouble. By the time she was preschool age she...