Monthly Homeschool Program at the Halifax Art Gallery – March-June 2009

Homeschool sessions at the Halifax Art Gallery have been running monthly on Thursdays from 10:30am – noon.  This time has included touring the gallery exhibits as well as time in the studio doing hands-on art activities.  The program is expanding to two morning per month beginning in March.  Each group of children will attend one

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Homeschool Buyer’s Co-op and E-book Store

The Homeschool Buyers Co-op is a non-profit organization.  They allow Homeschoolers to get bulk discount pricing on products and services by negotiating exclusive discounts. Currently, they have over 35,000 members and membership is absolutely free.  Sign up and receive email notices detailing current "group buys".  I myself have been a member since it first formed

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Trigger Memory Systems – Multiplication & Chores – Review

  My family had the tremendous gift of reviewing products from Trigger Memory Systems!  I honestly can’t say enough good things about these wonderful products, that are fantastic for not only homeschooled children, but any child. Wow, Times Tales really works!  We all snuggled down together on the couch for “Times Tales” time, myself, my

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Time 4 Learning – Review

My children have been playing with Time4Learning for over a month now.  They still often ask to go on the computer to use it, and my daughter does extra lessons just so that she can go on their "Playground" and play more games.  I think that in particular this is a great product for new

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The Nutcracker Ballet Sat. Dec 13th 1pm at a theatre near you!

Empire Theatres across Nova Scotia will be airing The Nutcracker Live in HD, Saturday at 1pm.  Performed by the San Francisco Ballet, you won’t want to miss it.  My daughter and I have been enjoying Ballet performances at the Empire all year.  For more information go to The Empire Theatres Website. Live, Love & Laugh,

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Spears Art Studio – Review

Spears Art Studio offers fine art and Christian art curricula for Primary through high school.  We had the chance to enjoy the "Spears Art Studio K-8 Christian Art Curriculum" ("K" meaning Kindergarten/Primary).  It comes in the form of a CD-ROM from which you print out the pdf file pages you need for projects and lesson

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Salem Ridge Press Books – Review

Salem Ridge Press re-publishes children’s books written in the 1800’s to early 1900’s, including Historical Fiction, Allegory, Adventure, and Young Readers – wonderful gems that may have been lost to this generation.  Our family has had the pleasure of reading three of these books. "Mary Jane:  Her Book" was my daughter’s favourite.  It’s about an

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Rime to Read – Review

 Rime to Read is a set of simple online books for beginning readers.  The books can be printed out as well for those who like to curl up on the couch and read like my family 🙂  A rime is a family of words that sound and look alike i.e. cat, sat, hat.  Each book

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