Author: mymentech

Take a journey through art with Sharon Jeffus! In this lesson, you’ll learn how to transform basic shapes into realistic objects and lifelike winter birds. You’ll also view masterpieces by Cezanne, John James Audubon and Archibald Thorburn. Sharon will guide you through two projects: transforming a circle, triangle and rectangle into a still life and creating a lovely chalk pastel picture of a bird in the snow.

Watch the birth of a book using traditional printing methods in this charming and fascinating video!

Many homeschool parents feel anxious about middle school. Often this comes from their memories about that time in their own lives. Before we started homeschooling, my husband and I were considering homeschooling only the middle school years, just because we remembered it being so difficult.

To “stack the deck” is to arrange the deck of cards in your favor prior to the beginning of play – making it much easier to win the game. Translate that into a series of composition textbooks, and you can see the advantage of having someone “stack the deck” of English writing and composition skills in the student’s favor.

So knowing that the French Revolution is not a topic exactly easy to explain to younger children… I made a board game about the French Revolution that they both could play. This way they both have an introduction to this...