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 […]
Learning About Birds: 7 Activities for Young Children
Are you participating in the Great Backyard Bird Count? My kids are very interested in learning about birds, so I came up with some bird activities to last through the month. Each day this week we will go on a bird hunt and see what type of bird we can spy with our little […]
Gregor Mendel, Genetics and Spudoodles
Sometimes when I look ahead at the biology module titles, I start to sweat. Will I be able to help my high schooler understand this when I don’t even remember what it is? Now I do have a basic (very basic) understanding of genetics, but my sleep-deprived brain (due to my sweet little newborn) had […]
Harmony Fine Arts: Ancient Art and the Orchestra Unit Study
About a week ago I shared my strategies for homeschooling with a newborn. One of the strategies was to use unit studies. For the next month or two, all my kids will be participating in an Ancient Art and the Orchestra unit study. In order to make planning easy for me, I am using Harmony […]
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