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The Perfect Gift for a Book Lover: The Book a Month Club

Gifts are always so challenging for tweens and teens. For my daughter’s twelfth birthday, my mother-in-law gave her the best gift ever: a Book a Month Club. So there’s no program to subscribe to in order to automate this, but I think that makes it even better. Here’s how it works: each month on her…

Silver Dolphin Books: Scanorama Book Review

I always have my eye out for great books that cultivate curiosity. It seems that nature provides such a fascinating range topics, that kids will spend hours pouring over books and not even know that they are reading or learning. A good animal book has not only engaging pictures, but fascinating information that will spark…

7 Tips for Learning to Draw the World

I’m journeying through Challenge A with my second child, and we’re back to drawing maps together. Learning to draw the world is one of my favorite aspects of the Challenge A program not only because I really enjoyed it myself, but because I’ve seen the value of having a general map in your head when…

A Mastery-Based Elementary Math Option for Frugal Families

I’ve come to learn that every child learns differently. My youngest has challenged me to research alternative approaches to subjects than I used with her siblings. Math is one of those subjects. When I ran across Math Mammoth, I was interested in the mastery-based approach and the affordable price tag. I’ve spent most of my…

Learning Latin Like Nat Bowditch with Scripture

We’ve been reading through Carry On, Mr. Bowditch again this year together as a family, and once again I’m struck by Nat’s approach to learning Latin. I just love this book. Latin used to be the language scientists used to communicate their ideas. If you haven’t read Carry On, Mr. Bowditch, you really need to add it to…