Mathletics is "America's No 1 Math Website". It is an online community that claims is completely safe for your student. "There is no communication with or between students."

Mathletics is geared for grades K-8. Each grade level has different activities in different categories. Your child should use Mathletics 3-5 times per week. You can print out certificates and workbooks for your child as well. They offer step-by-step animated support.

Mathletics by 3P Learning "has a number of unique features to strongly support home schooling." Some of these features are: Intelligent adaptiveness for most concepts - with questions getting harder as a student answers correctly; immediate feedback to responses with animated step-by-step support; the ability for a student to work at their own pace through the curriculum content; and more.

Weekly reports are emailed to you so you can keep up with your children's progress.

Mathletics costs $59 per student per year. If you know the answer to the "human calculator's favorite number" you can save $9.05 as the membership cost will only be $49.95. (The answer is 9 by the way.) They also offer a 10 day money back guarantee.

Although my children have thoroughly enjoyed using this online program, we will not continue our membership due to cost. I have 4 children in 8th and under and $200 a year on math is not something I consider frugal. Now, if it were $50 per family per year, I might change my mind.

Click here to download a home school brochure. Click here to go to Mathletics website. To see what my crewmates think, click here.

I received a free 45 day membership in exchange for my honest opinion.

Tektoma.com is an online game tutorial. My boys have thoroughly enjoyed this site. My son, Nathanael, who is 13 and pretty computer literate, created his own game thanks to this website. He said the directions were easy to follow. Even my 11 year old son, Wesley, said the tutorials were super easy to follow.

Tektoma offers video tutorials for ages 7-17 that vary in skill level and topics. You can learn at your own pace. New curriculums are available monthly. You can make racing games, arcade games, platform games or fantasy adventure games.

The monthly subscription is $14.95 or $140.00 if you choose a yearlong subscription.

You can get a free 14-day trial to see if you like it. Click here to go to their website. To see what my crewmates think, click here.

I received a free 3 month membership in exchange for my honest opinion.

Treasured is a book that pulls you in and holds your interest all the way through. After reading this book, I feel I could sit down and have a normal conversation with the author, Leigh McLeroy. She is a normal person with wants and needs, who wants to help you draw closer to God and show you that you are His treasure.

The book begins by describing the cigar box that her grandfather had special mementoes in. From there, we learn that just as those items were treasured by her grandfather, we are treasured by our Heavenly Father. God's Word is filled with verses showing how very much He loves us. From making skins for Adam & Eve's coverings to providing a kinsman-redeemer for Ruth, to giving His life for us, He has shown His love. What special mementoes would He hold of us if He had a box to put them in? What do we have in our box to remind us of special moments with God? The end of the book asks, "What's in Your Box?" a personal reflection and group discussion guide. Excellent. I highly recommend you read this book.

God Gave Us Christmas by Lisa Tawn Bergren is a children's book featuring a Mama Bear and her "Little Cub". Little Cub wants to know who invented Christmas. Was it Santa? Mama Bear explains that God made Christmas and they set out on an adventure to go find God and see how He gave us Christmas, because "God is everywhere". The illustrations were nicely done. I think some of the wording can be misleading because it seems to imply that God is a chunk of ice although it does clarify that "...he can command the water to freeze and the glacier to melt" - referring to the chunk of ice that fell into the sea.

God Gave Us Love by Lisa Tawn Bergren is a story between Grampa Bear and Little Cub. Little Cub wants to know how she can know that God loves them even when they can't see, touch or feel Him. Grampa explains many ways in which God shows us His love. This is a cute story about loving others even though we don't always feel like loving them.

*I received Treasured by Leigh McLeroy, God Gave Us Christmas and God Gave Us Love by Lisa Tawn Bergren from WaterBrook Multnomah Publishing Group for free in exchange for my honest review.

Time

     The dictionary says that time is a person's experience on a particuliar occasion or a rythm as given by a division into parts of equal time, or the period of time a prisoner is imprisoned. But I believe it is more than that. I believe time is our friend and our enemy and something we cannot change. Let's face it, time is worth so many things, it's also probably the most amazing thing humans have ever seen.

     I said to my mother once, if we could own time, it would be more expensive than a house and two cars and everything in th house and cars all put together. But for one, I think we should all be thankful for time. Because if you look at it, it is something so beautiful.

     Right now I'm looking at the clock, trying to look for an inspiration, but I should take my time because the time will come.

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Those words were exactly what she wrote. Pretty good for an 8 year old. I was really impressed and it almost made me cry. When we think we are not doing a good job as a teacher, our children go and do something that totally knock our socks off and show us we are not doing such a bad job afterall. Please share your comments and I will let her read them!

Accounting...well, I love playing with numbers and papers, so this is right up my alley.  Professor In A Box has created Financial Accounting for homeschool high school students. This course has 12 chapters on 4 cd's. You will receive narrated lectures, printable lecture slides, key concepts and terms, homework problems, solutions to homework problems, and an instructor's cd that includes the course syllabus, learning objectives, lesson plans, Microsoft Excel templates, 3 exams along with their solutions and grading guides. Also in the box you will receive a calculator and a pencil.

Michael P. Licata, Ph.D. is the author of this course. It is a college level course for high schoolers. There are no textbooks needed. You can choose to complete the course in one of two ways. One, the student can take an entire school year to complete it or, two, they can take it in a traditional college semester format from September through December or January through May. Everything in this box will help you prepare your child for the new CLEP Financial Accounting exam. Another plus - you can use this course with multiple children, multiple times.

Natalie, my 16 year old, wrote this:

"The Financial Accounting cd's are very simple and easy to follow. They are very descriptive with plenty of sample account statements. It is possibly the simplest [to understand] accounting studies that I have come across. These lessons gave me plenty of encouragement and confidence for handling money and being able to keep up with it. Now I know how to fill out both income and outgo statements for a company, and I'm still on the first lesson!" I will add that she said some of the lectures can be boring, but she says the same about me.

To get your copy for $134.99 with free Priority Mail shipping, click here. Oh yeah, there's also a full refund if you work through the first three chapters and you're not satisfied with the course, so what do you have to lose? To read what my crewmates had to say, click here.

*I received this product for free in exchange for my honest review.