Well, yesterday marked our first official day of the new homeschool year. And, if I do say so myself, it was a complete success. We were able to stay mostly within the guidelines of our family schedule, only making minor changes to accommodate for a sleeping baby and later an unintentional sleeping toddler. The day [...]
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First Day of the New Homeschool Year
Posted 23 August 2011 by adminTagged As: children, Homeschooling, parenting | Categories: Children, Homeschooling, Parenting, Products | Leave a Comment
Moore Mcguffey Readers
Posted 11 August 2011 by adminTagged As: Homeschooling, Literature | Categories: Children, Homeschooling, Things I Love | Leave a Comment
This is a totally dorky post and almost completely pointless. However, for no good reason benownst to me, I’m thrilled about having my boys read these books this upcoming school year… Thankfully, my mom kept a lot of books from when we were growing up and when they had moved a few years ago and [...]
Family Schedule
Posted 9 August 2011 by adminTagged As: Homeschooling, organization, schedule | Categories: Children, Homemaking, Homeschooling, Organization, Schedule | Leave a Comment
So, some time back I wrote a post “Preparing for Homeschooling” and I desperately wanted to include our family schedule that I spent so much time planning out. However, since I’m totally learning as I go with this whole website thing, I couldn’t figure out how to post that schedule here. But finally I figured [...]
Countdown to School
Posted 8 August 2011 by adminTagged As: Homeschooling | Categories: Homeschooling | Leave a Comment
Last week I sat down with a calendar so I could plan out the school year’s lesson plans…a few days off for Thanksgiving, 2 weeks off for Christmas, a few extra “free” days, and about 2 weeks off for after the baby is born in February. Well, since the 2010-2011 school year went well into June for us [...]
Preparing for Homeschooling
Posted 27 July 2011 by adminTagged As: Homeschooling | Categories: Children, Homeschooling, Things I Love | Leave a Comment
Lately I’ve been consumed with planning out the upcoming school year. My 6 year old will be starting the second grade and my 4 (almost 5) year old will be starting the first grade. As if that doesn’t sound crazy enough, add an energetic 3 year old, an attention-loving 1 year old, and a pregnant [...]
Apparently the Teacher Doesn’t Get the Summer Off
Posted 17 June 2011 by adminTagged As: homeschool, organization | Categories: Children, Homeschooling, Organization | Leave a Comment
The end is in sight! We only have six more days left before we’re finally finishing up the school year. I’m slightly frustrated at how long it’s taking us, but I try to remind myself that when I started out the school year I wasn’t anticipating having my six year old do two grade levels nor [...]
Giving My All
Posted 10 June 2011 by adminTagged As: faith, homeschool | Categories: Children, Faith, Homeschooling, Parenting | Leave a Comment
As we’re nearing the last stretch of our homeschooling year, I’m already planning out what we’ll be doing in the fall. And as I sat at my kitchen table pondering which language we should study first, which keyboarding curriculum will be the best, and which Bible study will provide the most nourishment to these little [...]
Bible Memorization For Kids
Posted 31 January 2011 by adminTagged As: children, faith, family, homeschool | Categories: Children, Faith, Homeschooling, Things I Love, Ways that Work (for me) | Leave a Comment
When I was picking out homeschool curriculum for my son last fall, I came across these awesome little Bible memorization cards for kids. There’s a card for each letter of the alphabet and then each letter has a verse that starts with that letter. I had always wanted to work on Bible memory with my [...]
Teaching Children to Read
Posted 23 January 2011 by adminTagged As: children, homeschool | Categories: Children, Homeschooling, Things I Love, Ways that Work (for me) | Leave a Comment
I’m sure there are a million ways for teaching children to read, and by no means am I going to say that my way is the best. In fact, I’m not even sure I have a certain way. All I’m going to do is write about what things I’ve done with my children that I [...]
Making the Decision to Homeschool
Posted 21 January 2011 by adminTagged As: homeschool | Categories: Homeschooling | Leave a Comment
I always knew that when it came to schooling options for our children, it would either be private school or homeschool. I had just always hoped we’d have the income to go the private school route because, quite honestly, the thought of homeschooling wasn’t the least bit appealing to me. And as our oldest child [...]
