When you are a homeschool family with a special needs child, there comes a time that you find what works. The sooner the better. There are many families with more then one special needs child. Our family is blessed—yes, I do mean blessed, to be one of those families. We have one child with dysgraphia, […]
Nature Study Tuesday~March 1
February 28, 2011 by 2 Comments
Welcome back to Nature Study Tuesday. We took a break over the coldest months of the winter, but now it is warming up and time to get back outside and enjoy God’s creation. Over the winter our oldest Philip, AKA Nature Boy, fed an opossum in our garage. This opossum has been lose and able […]
Helping your Children Pursue their Career Goals.
February 21, 2011 by 1 Comment
Homeschooling is one excellent way to be able to help your child learn about a career they are interested in. From a very young age, our oldest has wanted to work at a wildlife refuge or be a missionary in an animal filled area…Think Amazon here. Though we are not able to take him […]
Weekly Wrap-Up~The one where the weather has been nice again
February 18, 2011 by 1 Comment
This week we have covered lots of school, not because we didn’t enjoy the weather, but because we had the weather as motivation. Get your work done and we can go outside. This week my husband has been working for another area farmer, so we have had to adjust our un-normal schedule a bit […]
What Eats Ant Brains? Curiosity File’s Zombie Fire Ants Review
February 11, 2011 by 1 Comment
Got Boys? Got Tom Boys? Well, Zombie Fire Ants a Curiosity Files Unit available from The Old Schoolhouse Store will be sure to fill your boys and ever your girls with great new facts many of us have never heard of. What is a Zombie Fire Ant? Phorid Fly? How about a RFTA? Is your […]
Every Girl’s Dream Come True…
December 8, 2010 by 3 Comments
For Christmas this year, my girls’ are getting what they have wanted since they could talk. They actually already received it, and boy-oh-boy are they excited. I know Christmas is not about gifts, but we enjoy picking out special items for each other. For our family giving is the best part. There are some things […]
Nature Study Tuesday~Pumpkin Patch~October 26
October 25, 2010 by 1 Comment
This will be the last weekly NST until spring, unless, I have people showing interest to continue it. I am considering it doing it monthly through the winter. I just don’t see myself, or others, really being out in Nature enough to be about to post each week. 😉 This past Friday, we went to […]
Nature Study Tuesday~A Day at the Refuge October 19
October 18, 2010 by 1 Comment
This past weekend, we went to the nearby wildlife refuge for their annual celebration. First we went on the tram, the took us through an area of the refuge to the lookout tower over the marsh and wetlands. We learned that the marsh, is supposed to be naturally salty, but over the years has “freshed” […]
Education Outside the Home when Homeschooling—AKA Field Trips
October 11, 2010 by 2 Comments
Our family enjoys a lot of activities outside our home. We go on both group organized activities, and family activities. Most all include all members of our family—daddy is sometimes unable to go, and I sometimes leave a chatty toddler with him. 😉 We enjoy lots of history and science related activities. Some of these […]
Nature Study Tuesday~October 5~Apple Orchard
October 5, 2010 by Leave a Comment
I am sorry I am getting this up late. Our four year old most likely broke his arm Saturday, and I have been running. 😉 He has an ortho appointment tomorrow, so we should know for sure by then. 😉 Friday we went to an Apple Orchard for a field trip. It is a beautiful […]
Nature Study Tuesday~September 28~ Large Moth
September 28, 2010 by Leave a Comment
This week we were out playing, and our landlord/adopted grandpa drove in with a special package. I guess our love of nature must have rubbed off on him. ;) Anyway, he brought us a large moth. We believe it is a tobacco hornworm moth, but umm, it seems that these big moths all look very […]
Nature Study in Our Homeschool~Relaxed, Fun, and Educational
September 27, 2010 by 2 Comments
We have been doing some description or another of Nature Study for many years, long before we were officially homeschooling. I have always had an interest in Nature, and knew that I would pass it down to my children. If we give our children regular opportunities to get in touch with God’s creation, a habit […]
Nature Study Tuesday~ September 21~On or Off the Fence…
September 20, 2010 by 2 Comments
Once again our oldest was working with dad near Quivera Wildlife Refuge, when he found three Eastern Fence Lizards. These are the neatest little creatures, and they are really cute in a scaly kind of a way. They are so fun to watch. They bob their heads, race around and the tiny one will crawl […]
Nature Study Tuesday ~ September 14 ~ Family Zoo Trip
September 14, 2010 by 1 Comment
Our family does not go to the zoo all that often, or at least the big zoo. We go to the smaller zoo about two times a year. This was the year we went to the big one though. We saw so many creatures from God’s creation, and you know, every single one is beautiful […]
Nature Study Tuesday~September 7~ The USS-Unidentifiable Slithering Snake
September 6, 2010 by 1 Comment
This week I had our oldest out mowing. After a little while he came in carrying a snake, that had it’s clipped by the mower. It was about twelvish inches long and marked more like a bull snake then a garter snake. He was holding it and concerned about then tail, when it started acting […]
Nature Study Tuesday~August 31~Bull Snake, Giant Toad, Mushrooms, and more…
August 30, 2010 by 3 Comments
One of Philip’s goals this summer was to catch a bull snake, and catch a bull snake he did. This was not one of those cuddly snakes, notice the gloves? This thing decided to strike at me as I was walking by. Yeah, umm, I didn’t handle this one. He found it outside of his […]
Nature Study Tuesday~August 24~Healing, teeny Tiny Snake.
August 24, 2010 by Leave a Comment
As I posted yesterday, life is a bit busy here. Getting back to normal school hours, taking care of Stormy and canning are taking priority right now, so, my memes will be up, just maybe not when they have been. Just come link up when you can though. 😉 Stormy our horse who was injured […]
Nature Study Tuesday~August 17~Linky is here.
August 16, 2010 by 1 Comment
Ok, as some of you may have noticed, I decided for obvious reasons not to make all my readers read my graphic horse injury post to find the linky. Our nature study for a while will be our horse, unless we come upon something else. However, due to the amount of time I am spending […]
Nature Study Tuesday~August 17~WARNING~The one with graphic horse injury pictures.
August 16, 2010 by 8 Comments
Because of the graphic content, I will post a separate post, so that you can link up without having to look at the pictures. PLEASE NOTE THIS POST CONTAINS VERY GRAPHIC PICTURES!! Last week during the night between Tuesday and Wednesday, our mare was injured by another horse. When I went out to feed the […]
Nature Study Tuesday~August 10~The one where it is TOOOOOO HOT !!
August 9, 2010 by 1 Comment
Yes, I did shout that. It has been near or over 100 degrees for days. My green beans are burning up despite watering nearly ever day. It is just plain toooooo HOT. There has been one day in the last week that it hit 113. I have been able to get some beans from our […]
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