Quote For The Week: Monday/Tuesday/Wednesday/Thursday/Friday: The kids are spending the whole week at this wonderful place called Genesee Country Village & Museum. While they are there they will experience living, and working in a 19th-century country village. The village has over 40 furnished buildings ranging from a pioneer homestead to a grand octagon house. They […]
About By The Light of the Silvery Moon: Amelia Gladstone’s hopes are tied up in the Titanic — hopes for a reunion with her sister and an introduction to an admirer. But when she offers a spare ticket to a down-and-out young man, her fate is about to change. Quentin Walpole is stunned when a […]
Ava and I just finished our first week of 3 on a tooth unit study. I found a tooth unit from HomeSchoolShare to use as my starting point and then I am adding and subtracting as I see fit. This week we read the book Throw Your Tooth on the Roof. I really liked the […]
Monday: We started out the week a little slow. The kids were happy though as we had a Ciravola-Kinsler Family Kid Swap. We got the boys, and the Kinsler’s got the big girls (the little girls are too little to swap them yet). Luckily for me we had already planned a down day as I […]
Today the schools, banks, mail, and many other business are off in honor of Martin Luther King Jr Day. Each year for the past 4 years we have honored his memory by organizing a food drive on this, our day off. So last week we put fliers in mailboxes, and today we went out collecting […]
For Christmas our children received the Lego Architecture set for building the White House. Throughout the beginning of the instruction book there are facts and stories relating to the history of the White House. In 1791, President George Washington appointed Pierre Charles L’Enfant to design the new capital city. L’Enfant’s plan was based on a […]
Thanks to Litfuse this is my second review in a very short period of time and I still have one more coming up as well! If you didn’t catch my review of Sue Ellen’s Girl Ain’t Fat, She Just Weighs Heavy, take a moment and check it out! Also look out for my review of […]
I am working on organizing a 50 States Postcard Swap. The idea is that people from all over the United States will both send postcards from their state, and receive postcards from many other states. This could be used as a great learning tool to “travel” the United States. For instance you can study each […]
Have fun creating a Thanksgiving Acrostic Poems with the FREE Printables provided here! Thanksgiving Acrostic Poems This year I really wanted to do something special with them. We have tried acrostic poems before with little success but I went for it again with Thanksgiving. It turns out that they were better equipped to write one […]
Now that the kids are getting older I wanted to expose them to some Shakespeare. I remember very little from my high school years about Shakespeare and I did not have a great understanding or love of it then, nor do I now. My hope is that by exposing them to the stories at an […]
Learning the Presidents of the United States was made immeasurably easier when we found a song to help us out. This year for history we are studying the 44 Presidents of the United States. Just touching briefly on each one of them to have an idea of their names, and what they might have accomplished, […]
This week we are starting something new. Over the summer I was asked to review a book called The Core: Teaching Your Child the Foundations of Classical Education. While I did not find the book to be very useful overall, I did find one section that I totally loved. In Chapter Seven – Geography, Leigh […]