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My nine-year-old son is very creative. He loves to make up and tell a good story. And he really enjoys drawing all of the characters and made up worlds that exist in his fictional tales. His pictures paint beautiful wordless stories that I continue encouraging him to draw. However, this year I asked him to…
The Sonrise Stable series is the heartwarming, continuing story of an extended homeschooling family as they live, learn, and love together. Mixing adventure, life lessons, and realistic horse experiences, the series is a must for readers who enjoy family values, Christian faith, and, of course, horses! One of Vicki Watson’s purposes in creating this series…
For more than a half century, little Christian and Christiana have captivated children in their quest to reach the Celestial City. A journey frought with danger, pitfalls, and temptation, this retelling of John Bunyan’s classic allegory, Pilgrim’s Progress, celebrates more than 60 years. Your children will experience the journey like never before, with fresh illustrations…
I was excited to try out the We Choose Virtues Homeschool Kit with our two girls ages 6 and 3. I have seen this product online and mentioned on various blogs so I wanted to see how it would fit in with our daily activities. What is included in the Homeschool Kit? Reusable tools: Parenting…
Several weeks ago, a box filled with reading, writing and math curriculum arrived on my doorstep. I was so excited and couldn’t wait to open it up as these core subjects have been on the forefront of my mind more and more lately as the subjects I have dedicated to working on with my boys…
Historical Conquest: The Journey Through Time is an epic card game where players can create personalized societies with key players from history and battle them one against another; anyone, anywhere, anytime. Each card is complete with: fantastic illustrations of people, places, events in history; abilities in the game according to the abilities they had in…
I have three sons. Cuties, right?? That’s so not the point of this article but they are good lookin’ kids, yes? These boys have the same parents, they are being raised with the same values, they love the same God, all three live in the same house, they share the same bedroom, sit together in the…
The above phrase is Latin and means, “I will either find a way or make one,” which is a good mantra to have. It is the keep-on-keeping-on of Latin phrases and one I might be able to pronounce correctly in the near future! Why? Let me tell you. In December I wrote a post called Homeschooling…
With Easter fast upon us, I’m certain that cotton ball sales are on the rise. How many cotton ball lambs will be glued in haste by little hands and presented with pride to grandparents and Sunday School teachers? But that’s the nature of so many holidays. They invite us to tear open the bag of…
All it takes is reading one story a day to or with a child to promote literacy, creativity, strengthen the family and to have fun with children, which is the mission of Knowonder. Knowonder founder, Phillip Chipping, knows the value of reading to children daily, which he experienced as a child with his parents and…
You may remember reading in my last post here at Hip Homeschool Moms, about the journey my family has traveled in regards to crafting and art projects. It’s not surprising to me our homeschool has lacked in any kind of formal art instruction but my boys have a love, a true enjoyment of creating things and…
I never considered myself passionate about teaching handwriting. In fact, I have always disliked the idea of struggling with it. For those of us who have children that struggle with writing, and even those who don’t, it is tempting in this age of digital communication to forget about it all together and not keep handwriting…
