Homeschool Typing with Typesy
One of the reasons I love homeschooling is that I can take the time to focus on skills I feel my children need. Teaching life skills such as money management, typing, and home maintenance is something I think is missing in most public schools today. One of the skills I teach all my children is […]
Homeschool Planning Options
I am a planner. Whether you are referring to homeschool planning options, meal planning, home scheduling, I plan and organize it all. I LOVE planners, schedules, checklists, etc. Homeschool Planning There are endless homeschool planning options. It starts with the method in which you homeschool (Classical, Charlotte Mason, Unit Studies, School at Home), and then […]
Book Review: Firefly Island by Lisa Windgate
About Firefly Island: Sometimes love takes you on an adventure completely off the map. Mallory Hale’s life quickly veers off course when she falls hopelessly in love. After a whirlwind romance, Mallory finds herself leaving the bustle and action of Capitol Hill for the remote town of Moses Lake, Texas-with husband, stepson, and a U-Haul […]
Choosing Latin as a High School Elective & Foreign Language
Latin is a course that I sort of stumbled onto in my search for high school electives. While perusing a magazine I saw an ad that sparked my thoughts in the direction of Latin as an elective for Chloe. When I was in high school Latin was offered as a foreign language and was typically taken by those […]
FREE Educational iPad/iPod/iPhone Apps!! Good until 3/11/13
Lakeshore Learning is offering 7 new educational apps for FREE until 3/11/13. They have apps for kids from toddlers – 6th grade! CLICK HERE TO VIEW & DOWNLOAD THE & FREE APPS (expires 3/11/13) ** On 3/6 when I downloaded the Math & Language ones for grade 1-3 & 4-6, all four were full versions […]
Hamburger Stroganoff
Hamburger Stroganoff Serves: 5 Ingredients: 1 1/2 lbs hamburger (we use ground turkey) 2 TSBP butter or marjarine 16 oz. sour cream 1 medium onion 1 can cream of chicken soup 12 oz. noodles Seasonings to taste (we use Nature’s Seasoning) Directions: 1. Chop onion and saute in a pan with butter or marjarine. 2. […]
Art Project: Learning About Perspective ~ Part I
Our two most recent art projects ended up being theme related. Last year I found some art projects I really loved that used oil pastels. We immediately did one of them, but then the other got put on the back burner. I had been saving the other one, the Railroad Perspective project, not sure for […]
Thirty Days Has September ~ Cool Ways to Remember Stuff
I stumbled upon this book Thirty Days Has September – Cool Ways to Remember Stuff, a few years back and just loved some of the little mnemonic devices (A mnemonic device is any learning technique that aids information retention. Mnemonics aim to translate information into a form that the human brain can retain better than […]
Wilson “Snowflake” Bentley Unit – Including Crafts
Wilson Bentley was born February 9, 1865, on a farm in Jericho, Vermont. From early in childhood he loved snowflakes. He learned that most crystals had six branches. Starting at age 15 he drew 100 snowflakes each winter for 3 winters. Wilson learned to use micro-photography to photograph snowflakes. When he was 66 his book […]
Wordless (Almost) Wednesday ~ Snowshoeing
We finally had enough snow, and a free Saturday afternoon that happened to fall at the same time! This meant that we could try snowshoeing for the first time! We had wanted to go last year but never had enough snow to do it. This season the weekend we planned on going, all the snow […]
Souperior-M Meatloaf
(*Note – The above cell phone photo does not do this meal justice) Souperior-M Meatloaf (seasoned with a soup packet and Super Moist!) Ingredients: 1 envelope Onion Soup Mix (You can use Lipton Beefy Onion or any Onion Soup – we use one from Aldi’s) 2 lbs. ground beef (we use ground turkey) 3/4 cup […]
Wakefield by Nathaniel Hawthorne
Chloe is reading and we are discussing Wakefield by Nathaniel Hawthorne. Nathaniel Hawthorne, (1804-1864), ranks among America’s major authors. Between about 1825 and 1850, he developed his talent by writing short fiction and the novel Fanshawe (1828). Then he gained international fame for his novel The Scarlett Letter (1850). Here is an extensive list of his works. […]
Food Drive Drop Off & Foodlink Tour
To conclude our 2013 5th Annual Neighborhood Food Drive we made a trip to Foodlink to deliver the food and check donations we collected. After driving around and picking up all the donations we load them into our dining room where we take it all out of individual bags and sort it into boxes for […]
Snicker Doodles
Snicker Doodles Makes about 6 dozen cookies Ingredients: 1 cup soft shortening 1 1/2 cups sugar 2 eggs 2 3/4 cups flour 2 tsp. cream of tartar 1 tsp. salt 2 Tbsp. sugar 2 tsp. cinnamon Directions: 1. Heat over to 400 degrees. 2. Mix shortening, sugar, and eggs thoroughly. 3. Mix flour, cream of […]