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Discover the War of the Jews, fulfilled prophecy of Jesus in the Fall of Jerusalem in 70 AD from Josephus (Memoria Press) {Review}
If you have been here for a while, you know Memoria Press is my primary curriculum provider for the materials we use in our Memoria ScholĂ© Academy from the Preschool ages and beyond. Currently, I’m planning for an upcoming Fifth Grade Classical Core, Simply Classical Level 4 Fourth Grader, a combination Junior Kindergarten moving to Kindergarten, and Preschool (age 2-3) student. Yet, in addition to all that, I am also working on my own Classical Education rejuvenating with the higher level materials. During this review period, I am working through The Wars of the Jews set including Study Guide, Teacher Guide, and the Memoria Press published The Fall of Jerusalem by…
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Fix It! Grammar The Nose Tree (IEW Grammar Curriculum) {Review}
As I sat down and asked my girls, “Tell me about the Fix It! Grammar Curriculum,” my daughter looked at me, grinned and said, “I like it!” My middle daughter said, “It is nice and fun to do.” In our family, and little Memoria Schole Academy homeschool, we really love the Institute for Excellence in Writing (IEW)and I have found myself consistently adding more of their programs and products to our homeschool shelves in many different subjects. Fix It! Grammar: The Nose Tree Book 1is just the latest of our additions.
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Classically Homeschooling Poetry for the Grammar Stage (Memoria Poetry) {Review}
In the past few years, the well known Latina Christiana publisher has branched out even further in their pursuit of providing a full curriculum. This time, they are providing impressive poetry materials. Memoria Press is one of my favorite companies to work with and I’m proud to share my affiliate links with you throughout my reviews. You can also use the coupon code cherryblossom to let them know I sent you! Today, I want to take the time to tell you about Poetry for the Grammar Stage. Later this week, I will tell you all about Poetry & Short Stories: American Literature. This year, my oldest is continuing her trek through…
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PictaDicta (Online Vocabulary tutor) {Review}
We are a big book-loving family and I used to think that my kids would get their vocabulary skills from reading. While this does happen, I’m delighted to discover the fun and amazing tutor in Latin Vocabulary with Picta Dicta from Roman Roads Media. Learning Latin has so many benefits so I was thrilled at the opportunity for my students and me to try Picta Dicta Natural World from Roman Roads Media. Picta Dicta For the purposes of this review, I was granted with access to an online subscription for myself and each of my students. We have each tried a bit, but it is my two oldest girls and myself that are…
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Homeschooling in the midst of seasonal allergies
We are year-round homeschoolers, but I do make it a goal of hitting the next level around my babies’ summer birthdays. While we do not do a big starting school party or anything, after that fourth birthday we make it more of an official routine to get cracking with our studies. So, isn’t it an incredible feeling when we have a few weeks under our belt of accomplishments and then the pollen rears its nasty attitude. *insert whimper* As the leaves start to dry and crack and eventually fall the pollen and spores attack us. Not all of my family has been allergy tested, however, my son (4) and I…
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Discovering the skill of writing with Classical Composition I: Fable (Memoria Press) {Review}
Hello friends! As of January 2019, I have an affiliate account with Memoria Press. If you’re here, you know how passionate I am about Memoria Press. Please bless my family by using our links. Memoria Press ~  (http://MemoriaPress.com/) is the curriculum company behind the successful and inspirational Classical Christian Education school known as Highlands Latin School which has private and sister cottage locations nationwide and is a testing ground for all of their curricula that now resides on many homeschool bookshelves. Often Memoria Press discovers something well done and adopts it into the curriculum family to make it available for more people through their publication and Classical Composition, Fable Stage by James A.…
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Traditional Spelling 1 (Memoria Press) {Review}
Hello friends! As of January 2019, I have an affiliate account with Memoria Press. If you’re here, you know how passionate I am about Memoria Press. Please bless my family by using our links. Can you believe it?! Memoria Press is releasing their own Spelling curricula! Traditional Spelling I is in my hands! Well, if you follow me on any of my @CherryBlossomMJ social media you’ve already seen me squeal about that a few times. If you recall in reading my Advice on Starting Memoria Press First Grade post several years ago, and a few update Curriculum Choices posts here and there you’ve noticed the one thing that I was…
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Phonics Museum iOS app {Review}
As you know, if you’ve been around here in the past few years, we love Veritas Press materials. The curricula they publish is well done and their first venture into an iOS app is very positive as you shall see in my review of the new Phonics Museum iOS app for iPad and iPhone. For the purposes of this review, we are using the iOS Phonics Museum App on an iPad 2. Related: Phonics Museum iOS App for Preschool Related: 2016-2017 Curriculum Choices During the 2016-2017 school year, we started with the Veritas Press Scholars Academy Kindergarten, with the inclusion of Veritas Press Phonics Museum Kindergarten. We went ahead got…
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Iliad & Odyssey Complete Set (Memoria Press) {Review}
Hello friends! As of January 2019, I have an affiliate account with Memoria Press. If you’re here, you know how passionate I am about Memoria Press. Please bless my family by using our links. Do you even have to ask to know that this Creative Madness Mama absolutely adores materials from the people behind Memoria Press? In addition to teaching my own children on their level, I am also slowly working myself through the upper levels of material in continuing my own Classical Christian Education. Right now, I am delighted to have started a portion of the eighth grade Classical History curriculum. Thanks to the blessing of the Homeschool Review…
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Memoria Press Second Grade {Review – Part I}
Hello friends! As of January 2019, I have an affiliate account with Memoria Press. If you’re here, you know how passionate I am about Memoria Press. Please bless my family by using our links. In 2011, I added a second child to the mix and my toddler was antsy to get more attention in addition to being a little mama. We dabbled a bit with a book box curriculum of good nursery readers, however, it was in 2012-2013 that our Memoria Press adventure started. At the age of three, my book-loving daughter started in on our K3 Junior Kindergarten with an extremely wonderful year that we still look back on with extremely…
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Third Grade American History #memoriapress
What are you up to? We’re having a pretty successful #thirdgrade #homeschool day with #memoriapress #americanhistory #ushistory #vikings #literature #readaloud from Instagram: http://ift.tt/2ksVhs4
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Veritas Press Self-Paced Online Bible Old Testament 2: Judges to Kings {Review}
It is no secret that the Creative Madness Mama family is a really big fan of the Veritas Press company. These past few weeks many families of the TOS Review Crew have spent time reviewing different products including the Self-Paced Bible with three review options for the crew including the following: Old Testament 1: Genesis to Joshua Old Testament 2: Judges to Kings New Testament 1: The Gospels We are reviewing Old Testament 2: Judges to Kings for the crew review and continuing it for our 2016-2017 school year for my entering third-grade daughter (she will turn seven-years-old during the summer months). The other product for the crew reviews is a one-year family subscription to…
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D’Aulaires’ Greek Myths (Memoria Press) {Review}
Memoria Press ~  (http://www.memoriapress.com/) is a long-standing favorite of the Creative Madness Mama homeschooling household. Most recently we have been blessed by the TOS Crew to review their very popular D’Aulaires’ Greek Myths set which includes a consumable Student Guide, non-consumable Teacher’s Guide, and cardstock Flashcards. To enhance our studies, even more, we also bought the Audio version of the book, and thus have read it and listened to it multiple times now. Normally, each year I share a review of the entire Classical Core Curriculum from Memoria Press and the D’Aulaires’ Greek Myths set can most easily be found within the Memoria Press Third Grade Classical Core Curriculum in both their new…
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Top Ten Places I search for our next Read Aloud (Book Lists)
Hi, my name is Margaret and I’m a book-a-holic. You caught me. I am without excuse a complete bibliophile, a book nerd, collector, and I missed my calling as a classical librarian. One of my utterly favorite things to do since I caught the homeschooling bug is to make book lists. I have book lists for reading aloud. Book lists for required student reading. Book lists for enrichment and unit study purposes. Book lists for taking our studies a bit further. Book lists for entertaining and educating and book lists for just plain escaping into the pages of a story. I am delighted to discover a new book list source!…
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2014-2015 Curriculum Thoughts (Looking Back)
This has been a hectic year. This has been an amazing year. I had a baby. I blogged books, quilts, cross stitch, and homeschool stuff. I also taught a combination of Tot School and K5/1st Grade. I found some new things to love, and I discovered some things that just weren’t an appropriate fit. Love! (Backlinks of joy) Memoria Press First Grade (Advice) Memoria Press First Start Reading (Phonics) Memoria Press Kindergarten (Series) Creative Madness Mama Blossom School on a Normal Day Logic of English Foundations Lightning Literature 2014-2015 Wrap Up Blog Hop Landing Page (Visit other bloggers!) Last year, the curriculum that I chose was suppose to take AppleBlossom…
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The Conversation by Leigh A. Bortins {Review}
If you’ve been reading Creative Madness Mama this week you might have noticed that I recently read and short reviewed The Core. I decided to go back and read The Core after my experience and delight with The Conversation. We are, for the most part, a Classical Christian Educating family. A couple of years ago when a conference came to Memphis I was able to discover Classical Conversations ~ (http://www.ClassicalConversations.com) where I was introduced to their methodology for those studying at home. At that time my daughter was just starting Junior Kindergarten so I wasn’t quite ready to absorb all of the information. Yet since we have enjoyed their Classical…