We started using Before Five in a Row four years ago, and Five in a Row two years ago. We love our experience so far and can’t recommend it enough to those who want a relaxed approach to learning. I previously got to talk online to Steve Lambert, the publisher of the Five in a Row books and husband of BFIAR and FIAR author Jane Lambert. Since the homeschool conference that … [Read more...]
The Hands-On Working Mom Hack: 30 Minutes of Play a Day
It feels time is precious more so to a working mom. Secretly I’m always weighing things in my mental time scale – let’s see, this much time for this… is it worth it or not? Will my household be fine and can I make it up to them? One time-management rule I’ve read about and kept sacred is to spend at least 30 minutes of "floor time" with your kids. Floor time is just that … [Read more...]
Exploring Art, Shadows, and Manners with “If Jesus Came to My House”
If Jesus Came to My House is a lovely story about a boy who imagines what it would be like to have Jesus as a visitor. At the end of the story, he realizes that while it is not possible for Jesus to visit, he can still make Jesus happy by treating others the way he would have treated Him. It was one of my major book splurges and I must say that I do not regret it one … [Read more...]
5 Super Fun Ways to Learn about Magellan and Lapu-Lapu
You can say that Magellan and Lapu-Lapu called out to us and begged for us to learn about them. Though we were learning about explorers and explorations then, I didn’t realize that I could relate Philippine history to it until we came across Magellan and his death in our book called “Explorers News: Columbus in Japan!" I was still mulling about what our next topic would be … [Read more...]
Exploring the Explorers
We spent three weeks exploring the explorers. We jumpstarted our journey with Five in a Row book "Henry the Castaway" by Thomas Taylor, and then drifted off to other exciting adventures. What I love about “Five in a Row” is that it really ignites interest in a topic, no matter how simple a picture book seems to be. Our first week was spent learning about pirates because I … [Read more...]
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