After taking the month of September off, I think I am ready to dive back in and tackle some more goals. It seems like so long ago that I had set and worked on goals. I had to go back and review what I had completed and where I wanted to head for the month […]
Back in May I had the opportunity to start a fun project that I named, not so cleverly, 50 States Postcard Swap. Since spending a couple of months organizing and gathering names, we started mailing postcards in July. One of the first cards, if not the first postcard we received was a homemade postcard […]
This was another busy but successful week. We traveled between Greenland and Iceland with Leif Ericcson; we learned about molecules and atoms from their tiny size to the fact that they are always moving; we got free time outside, and shared in the amazing story of Winter, the dolphin with a prosthetic tail! Monday: Ava […]
Monday: This Monday was kind of like our Tuesday. We started our school year out on Friday last week because we are having a big garage sale this weekend and wanted to get a jump start on our week of work. Ava is loving doing her “arithmetic” which for her is just adding right […]
Being a homeschool parent who loves Susan Wise Bauer’s, The Well Trained Mind A Guide to a Classical Education at Home, I decided it was time to give Jessie Wise’s First Language Lessons curriculum a try. First Language Lessons Even though Chloe was in 6th grade last year, I was unsure how well of a […]
Friday We were scheduled to start next week, but due to a garage sale we are participating in, we won’t be available to do work on Thursday or Friday. To make up for that, we started today. So today is really “Monday” for us! Since I went to a new planning system this […]
I’ve been given a premium membership to VocabularySpellingCity.com for a candid, personal, online review. VocabularySpellingCity.com helps students study word lists using 25 different learning activities such as Vocabulary Test, Word UnScramble and Word Search. Parents can create their own spelling lists, find published lists already available on the site or use any of […]
So I am now 5 weeks in to my planning for the coming school year. It is amazing to me how I feel as though I have accomplished a lot, and yet hardly anything at all. I am wondering if despite all this hard work, I will even be ready by Sept 12th. My main […]
As homeschoolers physical education can be a school requirement that seems illusive, and maybe even hard to fulfill. I bet, like many, your kids/family get in more physical education than you think, without even knowing it! Homeschool Phys Ed is easier than you think!As my family and I sat around the dinner table we started […]
Week Four continues to bring me knee deep into this planning process. I have been able to add Jayden’s Singapore Math, Jayden’s Spelling, and Chloe’s Writing Strands 3 into Homeschool Tracker+. It was easier than I thought it was going to be once I got the hang of it. I am sure there are more […]
This is the 3rd week in my series that is chronicling my venture into a new planning/filing system for this year. You can check out part I, and II if you missed them. During this week I was able to get started on labeling and adding my files to my box. I used a yellow […]
. This year I am joining in on the 3rd Annual “Not” Back to School Blog Hop. This week is the curriculum link up. Seeing as I am well behind my usual planning target, this link up sort of pushed me to get my ducks in a row, or at least down in print! I […]