Starting your homeschooling journey is an adventure. In every adventure though, there are exciting times, mundane times and downright cortisol-pumping times! 🙂 When starting homeschooling, questions, doubts, concerns and fears can easily become overwhelming and make you doubt your decision. But be encouraged— you don’t have to do this journey alone. There are many homeschooling […]
Creeks and Waterfalls Nature Study
This summer my children and I joined a creeks and waterfalls nature study group. It was a win-win for me because it got us outside, it got us exploring our state and my friend Julie planned all the road trips! This was a great way to have scheduled, outdoor learning time during the summer. Here’s […]
Nature Study Displays
It took me awhile to be ok with bringing nature inside. I mean, I was a little concerned about little critter hitch-hikers finding their way into my home. But after figuring out how to address that problem, I was all on board for creating a nature display for our nature treasures. And now we keep […]
Nature Study and Chalk Art
Over the years two things that I have made a priority to incorporate into our homeschool have been nature studies and art. I know how much I get rejuvenated when being outdoors and I wanted to provide a way that my children can experience that as well. I also love to incorporate art because it […]
Learning about Rocks and Minerals
It has been a long winter for us– one where I found myself and our homeschool routine stalled. I’ve been in this place before, and knew I needed to pair things down to the basics and find a mini-unit study to focus on. We ended up doing a Rocks and Minerals unit study, and this– […]
