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TOS Homeschool Crew Review: AAS Beehive Reader 1

Previously I reviewed the All About Spelling program as part of the TOS Homeschool Crew. As a follow-up from the company, I also received a free copy of their book,Beehive Reader 1 written by Marie Rippel , in order for me to provide an honest review. My youngest took this book and immediately read it [...]

TOS Homeschool Crew: Math Mammoth

We seem to be reviewing a lot of math products for the TOS Homeschool Crew this year! Of course my youngest adores math so this was not a problem for her. One of the math products we received for free was from Math Mammoth. First of all I was very impressed by the materials offered [...]

Art and cartoons

A year ago I had started doing a few art classes in my home for other homeschoolers. My kids are very interested in art and are fairly good at drawing and painting. However as a result of the art class I Had I was able to see kids who had varying degrees of interest and [...]

TOS Homeschool Crew: Zeezok

As a member of the Homeschool Crew our family received from Zeezok Publishing’s Great Musicians Series, The Young Brahms / Franz Schubert and His Merry Friends Special Offer set which includes both books and the associated study guides as well as a companion CD. I was given this for free in order to provide an [...]

Snow…

We have had an unusually large of amount of snow dumped on us this Winter just in the month of February. Who knew that something as light and fluffy as snow could cause so much upheaval in life. We have been stranded in our home until the other day. Not to mention how much it [...]

TOS Homeschool Crew Review : Apologia- The Ultimate Guide to Homeschooling (Debra Bell)

My husband and I started thinking about homeschooling before we even had children. We did a lot of research and spent many hours going over everything we found on the subject of homeschooling. Even after many years of homeschooling, I still look for resources on homeschooling. As a member of the TOS Homeschool Crew, Apologia [...]

TOS Homeschool Crew Review: Dollar Homeschool

The company, Dollar Homeschool, provided me with a free download of Ray’s Arithmetic which is a complete math curriculum through high school. The material was created originally to be used by our country’s pioneers and was being used for many years. The beginning lessons of math are taught using an oral tradition where the teacher [...]

Graphics Toolbox software

I am in the middle of reviewing the Graphics Toolbox software and my kids have used it to make Valentine’s Day cards. Here is what they have designed using this software program.

TOS Homeschool Crew: Math Tutor

Another math product I had received for free to review as part of the TOS Homeschool Crew were two sets of DVDs by Math Tutor. The first one, The Basic Math Word Problem Tutor, is an 8 hour video course which comes as 2 DVDs. The DVDs cover instruction on word problems involving addition, subtraction, [...]

TOS Homeschool Crew: Try out process for next season’s Crew members

Anyone reading my blog knows that I am a member of the TOS Homeschool Crew for the current school year. As you know they select about 100-200 homeschoolers to be a part of this journey. You basically provide product reviews for the various vendors that are paying for their products to get honest product reviews [...]