What is your child’s favorite subject in school? In our family, our favorite homeschool curriculum electives are music, Spanish, and Chess. They love doing their “fun stuff.” In fact, Spanish is the one subject my girls beg me to continue each year even though I know that it is something we could put off until middle school….
Growing up, I remember looking forward to listening to the latest Adventures in Odyssey stories while traveling in the car. I couldn’t wait to see what happened next at Whit’s End in the imaginary town of Odyssey. When I heard a new audio adventure series was coming out by the former producers of Adventures in…
Watching children grow up is always a fascinating thing. There are some things certain children will do very well, while other things leave them lost in bewilderment and frustration. Take my eldest, for example. Peanut has always enjoyed singing and organizing things. Even as a 7 year old she can be found singing around the…
Do you know someone who speaks using American Sign Language (ASL)? I remember watching the ASL interpreter at our local church on Sunday mornings as she signed the songs and sermons to the deaf congregation as I was growing up. I always thought ASL was a beautiful language and one I wanted to learn one…
At the beginning of the school year, Peanut declared that she wanted to learn Spanish thanks in part to her preschool music teacher, whose first language was Spanish. While I hadn’t planned on focusing on a foreign language at this point in her schooling (she’s five), I heard about Middlebury Interactive Languages and thought we’d give it a…
For those of you who have followed our homeschooling journey for some time you know how much we use scripture songs to memorize our weekly Bible verses. As a music teacher, I’ve seen the effectiveness of scripture memory and other memory work skyrocket with the addition of words being put to music. You may forget…
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