Disclosure: I received free curriculum for review purposes and am being compensated for my time. I am not required to give a positive review.  As always, I am sharing my honest opinion with you. 

We have used Apologia’s elementary science curriculum for years, so I was excited to see their new high school Health and Nutrition curriculum because I knew it would have a Christian worldview. I want my kids to learn science through the lens of God’s amazing design and wisdom for our lives.

It is important for our children to learn to take care of themselves physically, but their mental and spiritual health is just as important. Exploring Creation with Health and Nutrition covers all of those bases and then some. [Read more…]

Disclosure: I received free curriculum for review purposes and am being compensated for my time. I am not required to give a positive review.  As always, I am sharing my honest opinion with you. 

Have you heard of CTCMath? A couple of my friends use this online math curriculum and encouraged me to try it out. I kind of brushed them off because we already have a shelf full of Teaching Textbook programs that all of my older kids have used. Those cost a pretty penny so I wasn’t interested in trying something new. Don’t fix what ain’t broke, right?

Well, guess what … this past year it broke. My 7th grader was really struggling with math and I knew she needed to try a different approach. For a split second, I insanely considered just quitting math for the year … that’s how bad it was.

Once I returned to my senses, I remembered how much my friends liked CTCMath so I decided to sign up for a free trial  to see if it would work for my daughter. [Read more…]