Through the Years with WinterPromise.

There's something special about a homeschool company which fits so well with your family that you keep coming back.  For our family, Winterpromise is that company.  It all started when our oldest son was entering first grade.  We had a FABULOUS year, using WinterPromise's Animals and Their Worlds theme program along with the first grade Language Arts, which today is called Stories to Short Chapters and features all WinterPromise written readers.

We were excited to dive right into American Story 1 for second grade.  It was so fun and exciting that it inspired our homeschool drama of the year, in which our boy played King Ferdinand to his cousins' Columbus and Queen Isabella.  We also completed Language Arts 2 from WinterPromise, which today is called Readers to Real Books.  Our science program was World Around Me, which has proved to be a family favorite as well.

WinterPromise has become part of our homeschooling culture.  The joy of side by side learning and sharing is one I would not trade for anything.

 

To read more about this journey and see more pictures of my handsome sons, go to my guest post on the WinterPromise Blog.

Ocmulgee Indian Mounds: A Great American Story 1 Field Trip!

While we were on vacation in Georgia, we took a little side field trip to "Indian Mounds". We viewed an excellently well preserved earth lodge, which has been reconstructed at the top, and hiked to the top of a huge "Temple" mound. Enjoy the slide show! This field trip fit in very well with our American Story 1 study, particularly since we just read about pre-Columbian cultures.

The mounds are called the Ocmulgee Indian Mounds, and they are located in Macon, Georgia.  Here is a website with more information about them.  http://lostworlds.org/ocmulgee_mounds/

WinterPromise Catalog 2013

 If you are like most homeschool teachers, Catalog Season ranks right up there with Advent in your list of favorite times of the year. One of my very favorite catalogs is the WinterPromise Publishing Catalog. This year is no exception! I am excited to see all the new full-color e-books available to spice up our year. I think we will be doing Quest for the Ancient World and Human Body/Forensic Detectives Science in 2013-2014. Here's a link to the Flipbook view of the new Catalog: http://www.winterpromise.com/catalog/ 
Here it is in printable PDF file: http://www.winterpromise.com/pdfs/catalog.pdf
And here is a link to a zip file: http://www.winterpromise.com/pdfs/catalog.zip