Curriculum | Heart of the Matter

$12 Living Math Books for Multiplication$

12 Living Math Books for Multiplication

As a former high school math teacher, I am a big proponent of using living math. With that said, I believe that a “living” math book is a book that presents mathematical concepts in real life context, which is...

Learning Styles: It’s the Way to Learn

Have you ever been so excited when new curriculum arrives at your door? You have spent hours patiently looking over catalogs marking the things that look exciting and interesting. You have posed countless questions to your...

Middle School Bible Study Journals by Tim and Michelle Eichner

Middle school can be tough, even for parents trying to find appropriate homeschooling curriculum choices, including Bible study. Kids that are middle school aged are really too old for a Bible study designed for younger...

Using Portfolios in the Home

Part notebook, part scrapbook, portfolios offer an ongoing and natural way to assess and record the abilities of our students. They not only remind us how much each of our children have accomplished over a school year,...

Teachable Moments in Spanish

Spring is in the air! Can you smell it? Flowers are blooming, birds are singing and the sun is warming our days. W can take advantage of this teachable moment to introduce or review some color words in Spanish. I made a...

The Homeschooler’s Simple Guide to Choosing Curriculum

This fall officially marks my twenty-first year as a mother and my sixteenth as a curriculum-purchasing homeschooler. I am also a renegade at heart, which means I’m hesitant to do what I’m told, what everyone else is doing,...

Living Math – Books and Money

Nature Journaling For Little Ones

I’ve wistfully contemplated nature journaling – beautiful, romantic, sweet, beyond my grasp. Life is too busy to just sit, relax, observe, be? Whenever I head outside, I grab my gardening tools. Or furtively check emails on...

Beginning with the Brain in Mind

We serve an awesome and powerful God. He created us in His image and therefore our brains are designed to follow His design for our lives. Sometimes we forget that each of us must follow our own separate path, especially...

Going Old-School: Final Projects, Part 1

We are starting our last unit study of the year this week. While we’re moving through some early American History, I’m also working though my usual checklists to make sure we’ve covered our subjects, filled in all...