I am not naturally organized. In fact, even when I try really hard I am not really organized. I have great ideas, and I mean well, but, in reality, I am just not an organized person…or am I? In fact, I have made wonderful forms that keep my older children organized in their homeschool lesson…
Every fall it is like this…field trip opportunities abound. This year though, it has been a little busier then the last couple. We have been to a homeschool fun day, the eye doctor four times, State Fair two times, Wild Life and Parks day, Peace Treaty Pageant, Farm helping too many times to count (from…
Pin ItAs we really get going in school, I am watching my children to see what seems to be their favorite curriculum so far. Why? Because I want to see if there is a pattern. Can I help make other subjects as interesting or fun for them? So far, for my oldest daughter it seems to…
As I have mentioned before, Fridays are our Fun School days. We play games, and do experiments and other such fun. This Friday we will be doing a Nature Scavenger Hunt. This is one of the activities in our Exploring Creation through Flying Creatures study. Next up with will break out our new Scrubble Cube. …
This week hasn’t quite gone like I wanted it to. Between appointments and baling hay we haven’t been able to start school in the mornings, and well, school work in the afternoons doesn’t seem to be working out. And if not getting school isn’t enough, chores are all messed up too. If I make…
Over the last few weeks, as I was preparing for our school year, I made a change, that I hadn’t really talked about. I decided NOT to put our 3.5 year old in with our kindergarten and first grade. He is able, but he is not ready, as his attention span does not have the…
As a fairly seasoned homeschooler, I have had to learn this. Sometimes it is a hard lesson, other times it is fairly easy to take. Already into our second week, I am having to make a couple of changes. Character Quality Language Arts is one of those changes. This is the second time I have…
Our days are full. We live on a small farm in rural Kansas, where you can here tractors groaning, birds chirping and coyotes howling at night. My husband farms alfalfa hay and some wheat. He also does some mechanicing on various items at any point in time. He enjoys taking our children with him on…
This will not be our typical Friday Fun School, but I have been sick most of the week, as has our three year old. So, rather then stress about it, I grabbed some fun things lying around and threw them in baskets..one for the older children, and one for the younger. Our baskets this week…
