Category Archives: Book Review

Continuing Education

This post contains affiliate links. I had a moment of panic yesterday when I realized that I was leaving for Virginia and the HEAV Convention next Saturday and I haven’t finished my list of curricula, picked the workshops I want … Continue reading

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Read Around Here: January/ February 2014

This post contains affiliate links. Your purchases help feed our book habit! Thank you.     The librarians at our local system are highly amused by how often we visit and how many books we take home. My card pretty … Continue reading

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Working The Plan: July 22 (and a ebook bundle)

This post contains affiliate links. Whoa! This week was crazy! Bull and Buggle had classes at different places and at different times, so I left the house three times a day all week! So glad that isn’t normal. Buggle really … Continue reading

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Learning How To Have Personal Devotions

This post contains affiliate links. One of the things that I’ve been wondering how to do for a while is to teach the older children how to have devotions and pray. I want them to have not only a good … Continue reading

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Readers in the House (and What We’re Reading These Days)

Last night I was folding laundry, while S (who had come home a little early) made supper. F was still working on his chores but Su had finished hers and came to me with the inevitable “What can I do?”. … Continue reading

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Science Lessons: Birds

Yesterday I received the final two books for our next six weeks of school. I had ordered them at the HEAV Convention and have been waiting for them so that I could put together the lesson plans for a six … Continue reading

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Gardening: Book Review The Art of the Kitchen Garden

I am an avid reader of gardening books (in the days when I had television I watched a lot of gardening shows too), but I don’t usually decide to buy them. Ethne Clarke’s The Art of the Kitchen Garden really … Continue reading

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