Every year I evaluate where we are with our educational goals, what resources we have, what we would like to accomplish and what I can handle. While I have always loved the idea of real-life learning and field trips, in the past I have not been up to doing them. I think the toddler, the infant, and lack […]
Little Listers Writing Challenge Plus Printable
I have recently fell in love with the world of traveler’s notebooks, Midori’s, and planning! I’ll talk more about that later (because I’m excited to share how this has helped me with homeschooling!) While jumping back in to the world of handmade crafty things, I recently joined a group of listers. Each month we have […]
Apologia: Exploring Creation with Chemistry and Physics
As a homeschool student, I have always enjoyed Apologia sciences. My younger sister is doing their Exploring Creation: Chemistry and Physics course at the moment. It is a introduction to Chemistry/Physics. I am doing Apologia’s Chemistry course right now myself. My sister and I decided to do one of the experiments that she hadn’t done […]
Chunk that Word! Reading Decoding Game
My oldest son (currently 1st grade) had been reading along so well. We had studied short vowel patterns, blends, digraphs, bossy r patterns, and some long vowel patterns. Then he hit a little road block. Many of his independent reading books began introducing multisyllabic words and he simply froze. Because the words were longer, they […]
Need a Party Activity? Try Pick and Draw!
This past weekend I had 5 preteens hang at my house for an evening in order to celebrate my 11yr. old daughter’s birthday. One thing I do when having a group of kids over is to try to have at least 2-3 structured activities available. This helps keep things a little calmer (though with 5 […]
