Welcome to my Build Your Own Homeschool Library series where I'm sharing with my readers some of my favorite books from my homeschool shelf. Please note that all the posts in this series contain my own opinions, and I have not been compensated by any publishing company for any of the content. Overview How to Read […]
Archives for May 2010
How to Teach the Scientific Method with Mythbusters
If you're a homeschooler and you've never heard about the Discovery Channel show called Mythbusters, you're missing out on a great resource for homeschooling. Mythbusters' hosts Jamie Hyneman and Adam Savage use the scientific method — and usually some black powder — to bust or confirm myths about just about anything. With crash-test dummies, homemade […]
Learning Lessons from History (The Myth of Utopia)
Nations that refuse to study and learn from history are doomed to repeat it. This sad fact is illustrated succinctly and with humor through this YouTube video from 1948 my dad sent me. I'm shocked — although less and less so every day — at how many people today are freely signing their freedom away […]
Usborne Science & Math Books
Welcome to my Build Your Own Homeschool Library series where I'm sharing with my readers some of my favorite books from my homeschool shelf. Please note that all the posts in this series contain my own opinions, and I have not been compensated by any publishing company for any of the content. Overview The Usborne Science […]
Rhyming Dictionary
Welcome to my Build Your Own Homeschool Library series where I'm sharing with my readers some of my favorite books from my homeschool shelf. Please note that all the posts in this series contain my own opinions, and I have not been compensated by any publishing company for any of the content. Overview Do you have […]
Wrapping up our school year
We're in our last term of the school year (not counting our mini-term in July), and we're wrapping up some of the curriculum we started at the beginning of the year. Granted, we dropped some of the curriculum we had started at the beginning of the year, but the curriculum we've kept working on is […]
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