Tools for the Homeschool Handy-Mom
Drawing Made Easy is another wonderful book by E.G. Lutz. I would classify it as the next step after What to Draw and How to Draw It. Subtitled A Helpful Book for Young Artists, Drawing Made Easy provides step-by-step detail with written instructions to help make the drawings better. After the preliminary information on what [...]
Our home has been filled to overflowing (at various times) with amplifiers, bugs, bridges, chickens, dogs, electronics, birds, horses, cows, fish, and better mousetraps — fortunately, mostly figuratively! Here are a few reasons why providing time for independent learning is so important: It fosters a love of learning that will carry on beyond “school years” [...]
What to Draw and How to Draw It by E. G. Lutz is a great drawing resource written especially for children. This is really a remarkable book in which line is made a good reason for form. The youngest child may grasp the magic progress of this way of working and he will draw the [...]
One of the ways to make history real is to include primary source documents. There is no substitute for hearing from those who lived at the time, those who had a hand in forming the laws and customs of our nation, those who were eyewitnesses to events. More importantly, it is often more enlightening than [...]
Memorial Day, May 27, 2013 We have updated our Memorial Day Holiday Helps page. You will find background information and history, activities, crafts, lesson plan ideas, a recommended book, and notebooking pages to help you and your family make this Memorial Day a special day of remembrance.
On May 16th in 1861, Irving Wightman Colburn was born. Colburn invented the method of inexpensively making large, continuous sheets of glass which has revolutionized the glass industry. Glass is among the most popular materials for building and decorating. This amazing, primarily sand-based compound is normally clear, but can be colored by adding impurities. There [...]
There is nothing more inspiring than exploring, recording, and illustrating God’s world! Nature notebooking can take many forms, depending on the ages, interests, and abilities of your children. Some of us are more artistic and will focus on brilliant illustrations and sketches that capture a moment. Others are gifted with words, and will describe to [...]
Are your little ones getting antsy with spring fever? Ready for something lighter as the year winds down? How about a simple visit with Beatrix Potter’s Mrs. Tittlemouse! The Tale of Mrs. Tittlemouse is a free Simple Days Unit Study download. After reading the illustrated text, youngsters can practice ordering events, play a “Who Am [...]
For review or as the spine of a full grammar course, homeschool handy-moms will love the Daily Grammar Archive! 440 lessons + quizzes and all free! Topics covered include: Parts of speech (verbs, nouns, pronouns, adjectives, adverbs, prepositions, and conjunctions) Parts of the sentence (including predicate nominatives, direct objects, transitive/intransitive verbs, appositives, prepositional phrases, indirect [...]
For the youngest children, it is usually enough to read through a Bible story book and have them narrate afterward what was read. For those who are ready to move up a bit, you might appreciate Hurlbut’s Bible Lessons For Boys and Girls by the Rev. Jesse Lyman Hurlbut. While these free lessons are keyed [...]
Drawing Made Easy is another wonderful book by E.G. Lutz. I would classify it as the next step after What to Draw and How to Draw It. Subtitled A Helpful Book for Young Artists, Drawing Made Easy … Continue reading →
