Homeschool Spelling For language arts our family does The Good and the Beautiful. I don’t like the spelling practice that is included. My kids still do it, but I also have them do a supplement. The Good and the Beautiful spelling didn’t seem to be helping my younger children particularly to learn how to spell. […]
Managing Stress: Tips for Homeschooling Parents This week has been such a crazy week. Monday we had our monthly 4H meeting at night. Tuesday we had a social worker visit for our foster babies. Wednesday we have our homeschool co-op and our youth church activities. Friday I will be going to hang out with friends […]
Honest Review of Biblioplan This year we changed our history curriculum to Biblioplan. We have done The Good and the Beautiful, Notgrass, and now Biblioplan. I have also researched so many different history curriculums trying to decide which one fits our family best. Here is my honest review of Biblioplan plan history. I love that […]
Our Homeschool Week Monday Beginning our homeschool week, Monday I had huge plans for our day. However, the wind graciously woke me up and informed me that we wouldn’t be going on a hike for homeschool. I’ve gone before with older kids, but it is tough on toddlers with how strong our wind gets here. […]
Balancing Homeschool and Sports: Why I Say No For several years my son has wanted to do basketball. I’ve told him I couldn’t handle it. He is getting close to the age where he could drive himself. This post goes over why I’m choosing to still say no. Why I said no in the 1st […]
Our Homeschool Week Monday Monday we had a pretty normal school day. We started school with independent work. We stopped for lunch and a long break around noon. After lunch I gathered my children back inside. We said a prayer and I read to my kids out of our Bible story book. Then we sang […]
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What is homeschooling like? A Week in the Life February 10-15 Monday My son that I like to call Skeebers has been sick sadly way too much. He had a tummy ache and a bad cold. He got to lay around and chill while the rest of us did school. For our combined circle time, […]
A Week in our Life February 3-8 Monday Monday most of my children were finished with the lessons they needed to do for the month. When they get to that point, I let them finish off the week with educational things of their choice. In my oldest daughter’s case, I’m having her work on her […]
School in the Car Last week we spent more time in the car than usual. Monday I went and picked up packages from the post office. Wednesday we had our homeschool coop, and Friday we had an unplanned trip to the chiropractor. The shortest of all these drives was 45 minutes one way. Here is […]
Just Another Week Monday We started school off with independent work. I was getting a bit stressed out. It takes a long time to help my 4th and 5th grader with their homework. I wanted to start school with them but not at the expense of getting anything in with my 1st grader and preschooler. […]
Homeschool and a Clean House? There was a time when I had two toddlers at home that, besides laundry, my house was really clean. I remember going to a friend’s house who had three kids. I wanted to quickly sweep her floor, put all the dirty socks in the washer, and wipe down her messy […]
Some Apps on your phone or computer can cost money and take up unwanted space. Others are absolutely essential and a gigantic help to your way of life. Here is apps I do and don’t recommend Apps I Recommend ABC Mouse ABC Mouse has been a huge help for me with especially my preschool and […]
I decided to start giving you, my readers, a fairly unfiltered view into our homeschool life. I want to lay out what our life is like each day. I hope for you who are already homeschooling, this gives you peace knowing you’re not alone. Furthermore, I really hope for those who aren’t homeschooling, it helps […]
Homeschool Mom- Resources Worth Your Time There are so many homeschool Moms I look up to. There are some specific ones that have really helped make my life easier. I’m inspired by them for different days reasons. For some the inspiration comes from their blog, from unit studies they’ve created, from their YouTube channel, from […]
We have done dry curriculum where we memorize flash cards to learn countries and states of the world. I gave up on that for something so much more exciting. We play board games now to learn geography. In this post I will mention some of my favorites. Trekking The World Scrambled States of America Trekking […]
How to Homeschool Choose an Educational Method There are different homeschool methods such as Charlotte Mason, Classical, Montessori, Unit Studies, Unschooling, Waldorf, and Gameschooling. Most homeschool parents do a mixture of many of these. My family’s homeschool method is like a beautiful bouquet. It draws beauty from many different methods. Research Homeschool Curriculum and Pick […]
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Counting Money Struggles For one of my children counting money is a real struggle. We have bought her lots of resources over the years. Here are some of the things that she really enjoys and new things we purchased to help her. Keep in mind, in my normal fashion, I really like to make everything […]
