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2017

Homemaking Help {Crew Review}

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Everyday Homemaking has helpful products that you can use in your home.  Everyday Homemaking offers several different products: Everyday Cooking, The Everyday Family Chore System, Home Education 101 and My Homeschool Planner.  Each of these are great for helping develop a better home.
For our review, we chose The Everyday Family Chore System.  I felt like this was something we could use, even though we actually reviewed this same product several years ago.  I remembered it and remembered how useful it was then so I decided to review it again with my children now that they are older.  Once again, we had great results.
The Everyday Family Chore System is a book written to the homemaker that helps you to implement a better home schedule for cleaning and chores in your home.  It teaches you to put your family to work and how to develop a better plan for everyone to use to help keep the house in order.  It can be used with a large family or small and is simple and easy to put into place.
Most of the book explains how to use the system.  It’s written to fully explain how the system works and make it easy for you to put to work with your family.  At the end of the book are worksheets and chore cards which can be printed out for use with your family.  I personally chose to laminate the chore cards so we would be able to use them longer because many little hands can destroy paper quickly and laminating allows the cards to have longer life.
There are blank chore cards that can be printed so you can add your own chores and routines to them.  The only thing I really disliked about the book was I didn’t find it was easy to print the cards with my printer as it was designed.  I tried to print odd/even pages and just couldn’t so I had to print the blank pages as well as the print ones.
The system itself is really easy to use.  You print the cards and hand them to the responsible person.  It’s an adaptable system.  You could make use of the chore system in many ways.  You could have the kids do the same chores, or you could have them choose different ones each time.  It’s completely up to you.
The system does help you create a cleaner and more organized home for your family.  It’s not an organizing system but it’s a great cleaning system.  It can be used for all ages from youngest to oldest and is so so easy to put into place.  The book itself doesn’t take long to read for you to get started.
You can buy The Everyday Family Chore System from Everyday Homemaking for $15.99 as a digital edition or $19.99 in a print edition.  Remember digital allows you to reprint the chore cards as they become damaged if you wish.
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Phonics Museum {Crew Review}

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Veritas Press is another amazing curriculum company that we have greatly enjoyed using in our homeschool over the years.  They offer so many amazing resources for all ages and are totally a favorite of ours!  We were truly excited when we were offered the Phonics Museum App to review.
Phonics Museum is an App available in the App store for the iPad.  It’s an adorably educational app for children to help them learn to read.  It’s multi-sensory with engaging themes that children enjoy.  There are games, songs, books, writing activities and more available through this app.  
This app is designed for young children to build skills in learning to read.  It’s super easy for them to use and builds upon the skills it covers as they work through the lessons on the app.  But it’s not setup as lessons, it’s just a fun “game” for kids where they learn.
First you create your name and character as well as a password to log in.  Remember your password or you will have challenges logging on to the app.  This is a lesson we learned quickly.
As with all Veritas Press curriculum, Phonics Museum is Classical Education material.  It’s a full curriculum app for your little ones and could be used for reading and language development or it can just be used as a curriculum supplement for your little one.
The Phonics Museum app is filled with adventurous and fun characters like William and Wendy who accompany and lead your child on their Phonics Museum adventure.  William and Wendy then introduce your child to Percival the knight, who they meet in a museum exhibit.  Miss Biddle is the Museum curator and is in charge of it all.  She’s the quirky “teacher” in the app.  
This app is jam-packed with information your little one needs to learn in order to read.  It gives your child a solid educational base for learning the alphabet, phonics, comprehension and so much more.  Honestly, I was skeptical at first but after seeing my kids use the app to learn I can say I’m completely thrilled with their progress and learning.
How We Used It:
This one I let Jack and Laycie use.  They love iPad time so I knew this app would be really fun for them to work on during their digital “play” time.  It quickly became a favorite that they argued over so we had to set up a basic schedule of when they could play to share it.  It was easily done.
They really learned so much.  Laycie knows a lot already but it was great review for her.  It was an introductory lesson on reading and phonics for Jackson and he truly enjoyed learning with the app.  
Where You Can Buy:

Phonics Museum App was created by Veritas Press and is available in the App Store.  It is a free app download and requires iOS 9.1 or later to use.  It’s made for ages 5 and under but it was a great review for my 9 year old as well.  It can be used with iPad or iPhone.


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Astronomy 1st Edition Lapbook {Crew Review}

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If you know me, then you know my personal love of ALL things from Apologia.  They are just an overall wonderful company that creates some of the best curriculum available for Christian Homeschoolers. But did you know one of my other favorite supplemental curriculum companies is A Journey Through Learning Lapbooks?  They are another awesome Christian company that provides amazing resources for educational use.
Having used most of Apologia’s Exploring Creation Science books with my children, I like to cycle back around and find new supplements to use for my youngest and as a review for my older children as well.  We have most of the series books and workbooks but I’m always looking for fun things like A Journey Through Learning Lapbook’s Apologia Exploring Creation with Astronomy (1st Edition) Lapbook.
There are tons of other titles also available at the Apologia Curriculum Page.
Now because we’ve used Apologia for 11 years now, we have many 1st Editions of their Exploring Creation series so it was necessary for me to have a 1st Edition Lapbook to use with my children, but they do have a 2nd Edition Lapbook available to use for you if need be, as well.  They also have lapbooks for many other titles available too.
What is a Lapbook?
So let’s talk about what a lapbook is?   A lapbook is an educational scrapbook of sorts or a type of interactive notebook, usually created on a file folder that is easy to keep up with, yet it packs in a ton of information into one place for your student.  Lapbooks usually have little bits of information stored within it’s pages, generally in eye catching designs to keep your student’s interest.
We’ve used various A Journey Through Learning Lapbooks over the years and have always enjoyed them.  They are really easy to use and extremely educational.  Even my bigger kids enjoy using them.
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This lapbook was a lot of fun.  The design was simple to use like all other A Journey Through Learning Lapbooks.  You jump right in to learning along with the Apologia Exploring Creation with Astronomy book.  Every section has an activity that helps reinforce what your student is learning in the book.  This particular lapbook was designed to be used with the 1st edition of the book which is the edition we have and use.  Though it’s an older version, it’s still a really great book that we’ve learned a lot from.  
How We Used It:
Because this is a digital product and because A Journey Through Learning is such a generous company, we were able to make multiple print copies of this lapbook to use with all our students.  The forms are easy to print and easy to put to work with little work from me, the parent.  The kids can easily cut out the little designs and glue them into their file folders on their own.  I just had to provide them with basic supplies which we keep on hand since we use lapbooks a lot in our learning.  Things like glue sticks, scissors, tape, and of course a file folder to place our information in to.
This was something I could use with my kids: ages 4, 9, 14, and 16.  Of course, the 4 year old had to have help with some tasks and writing the information in the blanks but he enjoyed learning along with the rest and gluing his stuff into place.
The bigger kids, of course, had no problems doing any of the work involved with the lapbook.
Where You Can Get This Product:
Apologia Exploring Creation with Astronomy (1st Edition) Lapbook is available from A Journey Through Learning Lapbooks for $15 for the Full Color Instant Download.  You can also get this lapbook on CD or printed if you choose.  Order options are available on the website. 
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No-Nonsense Algebra {Crew Review}

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Have you been looking for a great way to teach Algebra to your student?  Maybe you’ve been searching for a great Algebra review to prepare for the SAT or the ACT?  Math Essentials No-Nonsense Algebra is a wonderful product for both purposes!
I chose this review for two reasons:  I needed a good Algebra review book for myself to prepare to teach my older children more about Algebra and I needed a great book about Algebra to teach my children!  I was not disappointed at all in this choice.  It’s met every purpose that I was looking for.
This text is made for one student but I was able to make it work for our needs by using good, old fashioned notebook paper like the public school does with their textbooks.  I had my students and myself, read through the text and write out their equations on paper.  And ohhhh, how I forgot about SCRAP PAPER for math equations!!  Scrap Paper is a definite must for Algebra by all students, in my opinion.
This is a simply formatted and straightforward book.  There’s no fluff or fun.  It jumps into learning and is serious stuff.  You begin with Adding Integers.  There’s a great little number line that helps you learn this concept.  The lesson covers the How-To, then shows examples of the work being taught.  This is followed up by exercises to complete what the student is learning before moving onto the next step.  Lessons are short but as a bonus there are free online video lessons included with the course book.
This book makes a great review for you as the parent to use for teaching students Algebra as well.  I took Algebra 1 and 2 in High School but honestly I cannot tell you much about my lessons.  So this book was an awesome refresher course for me to help prepare me for teaching the kids these same math concepts and skills.  It was also great to see that I haven’t forgotten as much as I though I had.
Now for the kids:  I was able to put them to work with this course book right away.  The video lessons really helped them learn without me having to put in a lot of effort.  They sometimes learn better from a different instructor anyways and this was the case with this course.  Then they took what they learned between the video instruction and information in the lesson to figure out the answers to the questions for each lesson as we worked through.  Of course, this is a full-length Algebra textbook so we are still working our way through.  I’m slightly ahead of the kids on these lessons but we’re both learning so much from the course together.
The book is 10 chapters of Algebra and 280 pages in length.  It can easily be carried along with you for schooling on the go.  It’s a great review for students preparing for the SAT/ACT and other tests as well.  It’s a great review for parents preparing to teach students Algebra.  And of course it’s a great course for new Algebra students.
No-Nonsense Algebra is available from Math Essentials for the low price of $28.95.  Y’all this is an amazingly LOW price for a coursebook of this type!  And it can be used for so much too!  It’s a great deal you don’t want to miss out on!
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I Can Study Jonah And Ruth {Crew Review}

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Did you guys know that Greek ‘N’ Stuff carries more than just Greek products to learn with?  Have you been in search of a great bible study to use with your children at home?  Look no further!  I Can Study Jonah & Ruth Alone With God Bible Study in the NIV version by Karen Mohs is amazing!
Honestly y’all, I did not realize just how great this 13 week Bible study was going to be for me and my family.  The study is designed to be used by one student but at $8.95 it’s more than affordable to purchase as many as you need in your home or homeschool.  It’s really good stuff, y’all.
The front of the book has a short parent guide included which prepares you for using this study with your student at home.  It’s short and simple but covers all you need to know in 100 words or less.  This study is really easy to put to use and learn with.
Lessons 1-5 cover the story of Jonah which worked well for us since we were using another curriculum that also covered Jonah’s story to teach diligence in our home and life.  My kids are very familiar with Jonah’s story.  You can’t pass up a story of a big fish when you live with a bunch of fishermen and fish lovers!
This study goes more into depth than your usual stories though.  Each lesson breaks the verses down for each day.  You begin with prayer.  Then you read the verse that you are learning for that day.  There are lots of particular questions that are asked to really get to the heart of the verse your covering.  There’s even an explanation as to why we should do daily devotions.  At the end of the week, there’s a box called “Think and Pray About It”.  This helps to enforce what you’ve been learning all week before moving forward to learn more.
This study covers Jonah in the first five lessons and Ruth in the last lessons.  It takes you slowly through the lessons really allowing you to dissect and learn what the verses mean.  This is also a great way to learn to study the Bible on your own, showing you how to ask questions to deduct meaning and relating the verse to it’s true meaning.  What you learn through this study can be used with so many other things as well.
This Bible Study is meant to be used by one student but we used it for our family by simply using it as a discussion guide together.  We prayed together.  We read the verse together – I wrote the verse on our dry erase board each day along with the questions.  I then allowed the kids to answer the Bible Study questions together.  They then wrote the Verse, the questions and their answers out for copywork.  This was a great way to learn the Bible together as a family and to build skills needed for learning more about the Bible.  For my 4 year old, I printed coloring pages for him to do on Jonah and Ruth as we worked.  Fishie Boy loves Jonah.
You can find I Can Study Jonah & Ruth Alone With God Bible Study in NIV and in KJV from Greek ‘N’ Stuff for $8.95.  There is a sample page available on the website as well.  There are many other Bible Studies also available along with many other amazing products for your homeschool.
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