Category: Reviews

Helping Children Explore the Wonders of God’s Creation Nature Friend magazine is a children’s magazine the whole family, including the grandparents, can enjoy. It is published twelve issues per year, six of which are gently nudged towards the older family members. Readers are encouraged to participate in the magazine by submitting art, photographs, stories, puzzles and poems. Besides the various submissions used each month, they have an annual readers’ issue that is compiled from reader’s submissions, cover-to-cover. Nature Friend magazine, begun in 1983, was first published by the Stanley Brubaker family of Goshen, Indiana. It was born out of Mr.…

As you read in my College Prep Genius introduction post, College Prep Genius offers parents and students help in getting started for the road to college success. Through this course, students will learn how to prepare for the test, and the best way to take the test. Students are given tips and tricks to help them excel at standardized test taking. We received the College Prep Genius “Master the SAT Class” dvd set to review.  This set includes 4 dvds (the whole “Master the SAT Class” lecture series), the College Prep Genius textbook, and the College Prep Genius workbook. The…

Homeschool Curriculum and Guidance that Works– Without the Frustration or Expense! Write with the Best Volume One With Write with the Best Volume One, a child learns descriptive writing by modeling classic works of literature. Volume One is geared towards 3rd to 12th grade and covers nine different genres: Describing an Object from Jules Verne Describing a Place from Charles Dickens Describing a Character from Daniel Defoe Dialogue from Kenneth Grahame The Short Story from O. Henry Fables from Aesop Friendly Letters from Robert Louis Stevenson Poetry – Rhyming Verse from William Wordsworth The Ballad or Narrative Poem from Henry…