It's back-to-school time in many parts of the country! This week members of our Blog Team are sharing all kinds of back-to-school thoughts. From first-day-of-school traditions... to plans for the upcoming semester or school year... to tips for starting the school year off right... to memories of going back to school when they were kids... Visit each of the posts listed below for some great ideas and inspiration! You are invited to the Timberdoodle Back-to-School blog hop! Click here to enter

(Originally printed in a 1991 catalog) [Our ages in 1991. Joy - 9. Hope - 8. Grace - 7. Abel - 3.] Many moms have called and written asking for a schedule of what a typical day is like at the Timberdoodle. I hope they haven’t been too disappointed to discover that there are few average days here at the Timberdoodle. None-the-less, here is a thumb-nail sketch of what we try to accomplish every day. 6:00 AM Rise and shine! Well, better make that just rise. As in all families, there are morning people and there are those who don’t...

When your child needs to master unfamiliar words, hours of tedious memorization is not the only way. With 101 Doodle Definitions, your student will discover that by drawing a picture to remind him of a word, his brain will more readily remember the word’s meaning. 101 Doodle Definitions is fun. The words are hard. The drawing cues are spot on.  We asked several families on our Blog Team to review 101 Doodle Definitions. Would you like to know what they thought? Check it out! Family, Faith, and Fridays Michele says, " I LOVE this book and the way it teaches.  Let's face...

This is a common question about our Timberdoodle Curriculum Kits so for those of you who have wondered but not asked yet, here is our answer! Accreditation is really a term used for regulating schools instructing students, rather than the curriculum itself. So if we were overseeing the education of your children, checking their grades, etc. then we could pursue accreditation. However, Timberdoodle is not a school, but rather a curriculum supplier so we are not eligible to become accredited. To put it another way, your local school district is accredited, but not their textbooks. What most people mean when...

Originally posted in a 1992 Timberdoodle Catalog. If you have been home teaching for any length of time, friends, relatives, and strangers have undoubtedly asked you, “how do you do it all?” Oftentimes, the implication is not only why would you do it all, but can you possibly do it all properly. What is “all”? When we get this question it is referring to housework, schoolwork, and our business. If you are new to home education, let me share some ideas that have worked for us. In the area of housework, let me share my basic rule of thumb: if...