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10 Resources That will Help You Find Fine Arts
Fine Arts for your Homeschool Students When my husband and I were first married, we attended a touring performance of Les Mésirables. Being from a small, very rural town and having very little exposure to the arts, I sat in wonderment at the theatrics, the music and the beauty of the entire drama that was unfolding before me. I knew then that I wanted to explore the arts even further. Thankfully, I have a husband who also enjoys the arts and through the years we have had several opportunities to attend gallery openings, theatrical performances, concerts, symphonies, and even one opera. When I began homeschooling, I knew that I wanted to…
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She’s Overcoming the “I Could Never Do That” Mentality
It is my great pleasure to introduce you to my dear friend, Vicky. We first met online, when she messaged me asking me some questions about homeschooling. But, we’ve since met in real life several times. I love that she’s always ready with a warm, friendly hug, a big happy smile, listening ears and a loving heart. We’ve had many a heart-to-heart and I am honored to call her my sister in the Lord, and my friend. She had been a teacher for about 10 years in her local public school. While her 2 children, a boy and a girl, were babies she took a break from teaching in order…
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How to Solve a Pre-Teen’s Creative Writing Struggle
The Creative Writing Struggle Disclosure: I received these products for free to share with you how I am solving my pre-teen’s creative writing struggle, and I am being compensated for my time. All opinions about Rainbowresource.com are my own and I gladly share them with you because they are my go-to resource for all things educational supplies for homeschoolers. It’s no secret that my pre-teen young man is not a fan of creative writing. It’s been a struggle between he and myself from the earliest of homeschooling days. Each summer, I search high and low for a solution to this problem and by 8-10 weeks into school, I’m ready to…
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Real Life Superhero Homeschool Mom: Protecting and Preparing
Meet homeschool teacher at Peebly Christian Academy, and mom Patricia Bryan. She’s schooling her 5 daughters, a 17 yr old who is in the 12th grade, a 14 yr old in the 9th grade, a 10 yr old in the 4th grade, an 8 yr old in the 2nd, and a 6 yr old in the 1st grade. When their oldest was 5 they enrolled her in public PreK school. It wasn’t long before they realized that the district was not the ideal place for their daughter to be educated. “We were having a lot of trouble with bullying and being physically beat up. A 5 yr old girl should not be getting beat up in…
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With Wisdom She Seeks to Provide a Custom Education for each Child
Lisa Wilen is homeschool mom and teacher at Joyful Journey Christian Homeschool where she is homeschooling 2 of her 3 children, all girls. Ashlynn age 17, and Holly age 11 both are educating at home, while Jenna age 13 is attending their local public school. When Lisa’s first daughter, Ashlynn was 4 she was already able to read fluently. Lisa was concerned that kindergarten in the public school would be too boring for her. Lisa realized that she had invested time and energy teaching her at home, she wondered, Why not continue? Deciding to take it one year at a time, they proceeded with home education as their educational choice. She…
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25 Resources for Awesome FREE Homeschooling
There are times when a family has to tighten the budget. Sometimes, it comes from making the hard decision for one parent to come home from working outside the house in order to homeschool. Other times it’s because of job loss or changes in employment status.Whatever the reason when you have a tight budget, it’s important to know you can homeschool on any budget. In fact, FREE homeschooling is entirely possible. This post contains affiliate advertisement links to 3rd party sites. Recently, my friend Caitlin posted about this very thing, she explained that there is really only one thing you need to homeschool. Find out what it is. But…
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She’s Trusting God to Supply Her Needs
I’d like to introduce you to homeschool mom, Dawn Cole. She is mom to 8 children. The oldest has graduated, the youngest is too young for school. That leaves 6 children that she is currently homeschooling at Cornerstone Christian Academy, they are in grades 12th, 10th, 7th, 4th, 3rd, and 1st. That is certainly quite an array of ages/grades to cover in one academic year isn’t it? When her oldest child was about to turn 5, Dawn dreaded the idea of sending her little girl away from home for school. Couple that with seeing others whose kids were struggling in that environment she tells me that her inner voice kept…
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Chemist Mama Develops Kitchen Science for Kids
Gina is one of those moms that truly makes one consider the value of home education. At the Simpson Family Homeschool she is schooling 3 children; Isaac age 8, 4th Grade; Abigail, age 6, 2nd Grade and Indiana age 5, Kindergarten. Given that both she and her husband are both scientist, she has a degree in Chemistry and he is an Engineer, this choice may come as a surprise. But, they wanted to ensure their children were given an education grounded in a Biblical worldview, full of Christian evidences. Pulling in their own educational backgrounds Gina admits that their homeschool is a little more science and math intensive than most. For her she doesn’t…
