In addition to the specific resources for this week, we are also listening to Story of the World (SOTW) on CD, watching selected episodes of Drive Thru History, and keeping a cummulative timeline of things we learn in history. I am planning appropriate activities for Mia that are a little less complicated than last year and giving […]
Last year after I admitted my struggle with lapbooks, Karen over at Wisdom and Righteousness, reached out and offered to get me hooked. Actually she was much humbler than that. Either way, she agreed to give me a complimentary set for Cycle 1 in exchange for a review and some blog love. Given Mia’s learning […]
If you read this post, you know scheduling and I had this love/hate relationship last school year. With 3 new kids joining the schooling clan this year, I knew scheduling was going to have to become my new best friend. I recently finished a 3-day practicum for CC. It was brutal on our schedule but […]
Here are what our upcoming 2nd (Mia) and 4th (PJ) graders will be doing. Our Kindergartner, will be doing ABCs at Home. Our ESL Middle Schoolers will be doing…yeah, I wish that was organized enough to tell you. Bible/Christian Studies We re-enrolled in Community Bible Study (CBS), where our community will be studying Luke. They have age-appropriate homeschool […]
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I’m excited to introduce the curriculum Ty will be using next year (along with Classical Conversations) because, well, I wrote it. Yeah. This post is totally to toot my own horn and unashamedly ask you to check it out. Why? Because I think it’s great and because it can probably use all the constructive criticism […]
I’ll admit that I’m pretty skeptical of primarily online learning resources. We try to limit the amount of “screen time” our kids get. Because they obviously want to do fun stuff like movies and video games for their screen time, I shy away from using a lot of screen things for teaching. Maybe I’m overreacting […]
I’ve been published! The folks over at the Homeschool Classroom posted an article today about memorization tips and learning style written by yours truly. Head over there by clicking here to get some tips and show some love.