Making homeschool decisions easy
Once Thanksgiving has come and gone, we enter the rush toward Christmas. With family, church, and homeschooling obligations it can seem like we are always a little bit behind during the month of December. Why not consciously plan ahead and choose to create a little margin? Homeschooling offers us that kind of flexibility. In our homeschool, we will be setting aside the bulk of our
The weeks before Christmas are a wonderful time of anticipation. The Advent series by Arnold Ytreeide help us built special family devotion time each evening – from shortly after Thanksgiving until Christmas morning! Today I am sharing about the latest in the series of storybooks for Advent: Ishtar’s Odyssey “Ishtar, it seems you have discovered a star that even yesterday did not exist!” We received
Enjoy these August homeschool celebrations with your loved ones and make memories this month! August Homeschool Celebrations National Toasted Marshmallow Day – Have a fluffy, sticky, marshmallow-kind of day to celebrate this fun holiday. Have a marshmallow toss outside or inside. Pair up with a family member and supply each pair with a large marshmallow. Toss the marshmallow back and forth, like the old-fashioned egg
Morning Time goes by many names: circle time, morning basket, even symposium. In our home this time is anchored by our history study. We read aloud from our spine book, look at maps, and have rollicking discussions. From this firm foundation, we move into individual skill work in language arts and math. But our time learning together anchors and defines our homeschool. My oldest was
July 2 marks the half-way point of the calendar year. And what a year 2020 has been thus far! How are your family adventures adding up for the first six months of 2020? We’re living in unprecedented days, but that doesn’t mean the family fun and festivities need to end. Brainstorm and think creatively to plan activities for the next days and weeks and months
Is Genesis History? This homeschool year we enjoyed some evening family time with an excellent digital Bible study series resource from Compass Classroom. One of our favorite times of learning is when we wait until Dad is home. I love the family discussions and world view question and answer sessions promoted by great homeschool resources like these. All opinions are our own and we love
At our house handwriting practice was causing friction. My verbal, creative 2nd grader just didn’t like any kind of writing. I was on the look out for something that might change her mind. She liked how fancy my own cursive handwriting looked! Maybe cursive was the solution to our handwriting troubles? We started a program at the beginning of the school year, but she found
When we first began home educating our eldest son we began with the Five In A Row Curriculum. I was smitten with the fact that it used many beloved picture books and would introduce us to some new ones we weren’t quite familiar with. We used the Five In A Row (FIAR) Curriculum for five beautiful years with our children before it was, sadly, time
