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RightStart Math Annual Cyber Monday Sale!

It's time to stock up on all your RightStart Math needs! Cyber Monday deals start at 5AM CST (6AM EST), November 29, 2021. This is the best time to get additional manipulatives and books! All items for sale are "like new" - things returned from other customers, or used as demonstration materials at curriculum fairs.… Continue reading RightStart Math Annual Cyber Monday Sale!

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Get a FREE All About Homophones book!

This year we're using All About Homophones for the first time! This is an activity book that dovetails perfectly into All About Spelling and helps kids reinforce correct homophone usage. For the first time ever (that I've seen!), All About Learning is offering a FREE copy of their All About Homophones paperback book with any… Continue reading Get a FREE All About Homophones book!

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All About Reading – Free Shipping til Sunday!

Friends! I'm so excited to share this special promotional deal from All About Learning! Until Sunday October 3, you can get free shipping on your order! We've been using All About Spelling and All About Reading for many years now and my kids just love it! Ordering directly through their company means you get a… Continue reading All About Reading – Free Shipping til Sunday!

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All About Pre-Reading! {Review}

This year I decided to try something new with my youngest: All About Reading: Pre-Reading. I'd initially planned to just have her use various workbooks and participate in our daily storytimes, but this little one was desperate to "do school," so I thought I'd give a published curriculum a shot! We have used All About… Continue reading All About Pre-Reading! {Review}

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RightStart Math Convention Time!

It's convention season again, which means *sale time*! Due to Covid restrictions, many of the normally in-person homeschool conventions are online again this year, which means Right Start Math's normal convention discount is also available online! (Keep reading - I've included it at the coupon code at the end of this post!). I've written a… Continue reading RightStart Math Convention Time!

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How to Make Tactile Numbers for RightStart Math

I'm now making my way through RightStart Level A for the third time and FINALLY got around to making the Sandpaper Number Cards from the games book! I have found that ALL my children really struggle with getting their numbers around the right way and I've read that kids greatly benefit from tracing the number… Continue reading How to Make Tactile Numbers for RightStart Math

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RightStart Math Sale & Homeschool Updates

Homeschool friends: Now is a great time to score a new abacus -- and it's a cute one! Also, I thought I'd give you a little snapshot into other things we've been doing over the last little while! Being that it's freezing cold and everything has shut down again, we haven't really been on any field trips, but we've been making fun at home.

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Looking Back at our 2020 Homeschool Year

Whew, I can't believe we're at the end of 2020 already! Unfortunately, like most other people, we spent most of the year at home and away from people. The kids... haven't loved it. There have been some bright spots though, and I hope with this last half of the school year, I can make it a bit more fun for them. So, what did we actually do this year?