We’ve used a lot of homeschool programs, tools, and books over the years, and this is where we share what’s actually worked for us. These reviews are honest, detailed, and written from a parent’s perspective. Whether you’re looking for a new curriculum or a fun supplement, this section will help you decide what’s worth trying.
We have taken multiple financial literacy courses over the last 2 years, which have all been excellent. So why was I on the hunt for a new financial literacy for teens course? The other courses were more theoretical, which I wanted, but Beyond Personal Finance talks about what to expect for the next 20 years….
I absolutely LOVE homeschooling! Do you know the main reason? We can be led by our child’s dreams and aspirations. We don’t need to do anything in order, and we can pick and choose the homeschool curriculum that works for us. Coding is a great example of this. We have been coding in our homeschool…
As we hit middle school this year I have been wanting to find the best homeschool typing curriculum. Typesy is absolutely what we were looking for. Typing, luckily for us, as handwriting is not my son’s superpower, is an absolute necessity in today’s society. So finding an actual homeschool typing program was equally important. When…
History is one of our favorite subjects in our homeschool, and we’ve enhanced our experience by incorporating History Odyssey from Pandia Press, as you’ll discover in this History Odyssey review. We now love it even more. Before I go on, I just want to let you know that History Odyssey is one of the best…
We have been huge fans of subscription boxes for years now. I have been on the lookout recently for the best stem subscription boxes when I came across OysterKit. OysterKit has created two stem subscription boxes for kids aged 3-9+ called the Professions box. Hands-on projects that introduce kids to different career paths. The Professions…
Check out why we think Great Bend Center for Music offers the best online music lessons. We only started adding music to our homeschool a couple of years ago, and it was the best thing we did. One of the reasons we delayed it was that we already had lots of things going on, with…
I am not exaggerating, not even a little when I tell you Mr. D Math is our NUMBER 1 homeschool resource. We have just taken the Mr D ASL 1 self paced course and we loved it. Carry on reading for our Mr. D ASL review. To meet the high school requirement we needed to…
Discover the best social emotional homeschool curriculum designed to foster holistic growth and well-being in students. Our kids have gone through so much over the last few years. Much more so than we as parents had to deal with. Starting conversations about topics as hard as these are difficult for adults never mind for children….
STEM is so important for kids, and yet it is so hard for me to teach. So I don’t! I know my limits as a homeschool mom and this is definitely one of them! Therefore, finding a digital STEM platform was the only way we could cover it. We have recently discovered StemWerkz which is…
How to write essays that have impact with Heron Books. We are a math-loving family, we love the fact that it is either right or wrong. However, this has its challenges. He loves math, but guess what he doesn’t love! Writing! Over the last year, his writing has definitely improved but it was missing something….
Mom, I think I want to be a doctor! Hmm, well that came as a shock, as only last week he wanted to be a stockbroker! I completely blame the best anatomy book for kids we have been using. So in my search for the best homeschool biology curriculum, I came across Doctor Robins. Doctor…
Love science again with College Prep Science! Do you remember when you first decided to homeschool? I do, I was so confident that I would have the skills to teach my 8-year-old son everything he would need to know. It makes me laugh so much now about how naive I was. So how do I…
Coding for homeschoolers is fun with CodaKid. We’ve all heard about coding, and we all know it is important, but if you are anything like me you probably have no idea how to teach it! Getting kids coding is so important that I needed to find some way of teaching it in our homeschool. We…
Would your kids watch YouTube and tv all day if they had the choice? You are not alone, but I have found the answer! Let them! Generation Genius has the most engaging science and math videos for grades K-8. Carry on reading for our honest Generation Genius review. We have been using Generation Genius for…
Live online homeschool classes are extremely important to our homeschool, and now Allschool has been introduced to us, and they are even better! UPDATE: The online tutoring platform AllSchool officially shut down its website on December 6, 2024, ceasing all new registrations and services. Don’t worry if you have not heard of Allschool before, they are…