This week we are easing into the new homeschool year. I have four weeks of lessons planned for our new year, but we won’t start on them for at least two weeks. Because we took an unexpected time off through most of the summer, I want to spend some time reviewing where we left off. […]
Jumping Ship from the Institutionalized Educational Mindset in the Homeschool~Part 1 Grade levels and Start Dates
June 14, 2011 by 9 Comments
Over the years of homeschooling, I have become braver in getting away from the school at home mindset. However, I have also known, I needed to get farther away from that mindset in order to be able to attain our goals with our children. Grade levels is one way I am doing that this year. […]
Homeschool Mother’s Journal May 13
May 14, 2011 by 7 Comments
In my life this week… This week I have kept busy with blog stuff, from designing a homeschool blog for a friend, to keeping up with my own blogs. We also took a day off and went grocery shopping. I hit Office Max during a sale on ink and managed to get plenty for this […]
Currclick is Having a HUGE Sale
May 12, 2011 by Leave a Comment
Between now and May 20th, people who visit this non-public section of CurrClick, will get 50% savings on 100’s of top homeschool resources from some of our best selling publishers. Not only that, but several of our most popular teachers are offering 10% OFF all their summer and fall classes. In addition, visitors to our […]
Life Skills in the Homeschool
March 22, 2011 by 1 Comment
We are big on life skills. In fact at times, I think my children learn a lot more out of the mores then in the books. Rarely can life skills be learned in a book, character lessons, yes, but actually being able to carry those out, no. In our family, we incorporate life skills in […]
Weekly Wrap-Up~Starting Nature Studies Again, The Boys of ‘76, and more…
March 4, 2011 by 3 Comments
This week has been a busy week at home. We have gotten up fifteen minutes earlier then last week each day. Our nap/rest/reading time has been much more peaceful. I think I will go another 15 minutes earlier next week and then see how this schedule works for the rest of the spring. Why would […]
Learning as a Lifestyle Science.
January 5, 2011 by 2 Comments
Someone once asked me what I used for science in our homeschool I stared at them blankly. Seriously I did. Shh, we really don’t use anything for science. Science happens in life, and well, we just let life teach us. This is coming from a mom who literally tested out of High school biology, helped […]
A HUGE Blessing in our Homeschool Records~Homeschool Snips & Tips Wednesday October 20
October 19, 2010 by Leave a Comment
Over the years, I have wished to have more professional records, or portfolios for our homeschool. I really don’t care that my planning pages are all fill in the blank type, but the what we have done, read, and so forth, I wanted to be more professional. Several years ago, I had purchased Homeschool Tracker […]
Calgon Days in the Homeschool~Homeschool Snips and Tips September 1
August 31, 2010 by 1 Comment
You know, not all days are good when you are homeschooling, however how you handle those days speaks very loudly to your children. We woke one morning, and one of my children seemed to forget how to read, the mouse for the children’s school computer broke (desktop), and the baby was fussy. The kindergartener does […]
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 […]
A few Thoughts and Tips for Those New To and Thinking About Homeschooling.
August 16, 2010 by 3 Comments
We all start from the beginning, that overwhelming feeling of how we will get it done, or what to use, or will we meet all the needs. All those feelings are NORMAL, and yes many of them come back every now and then. When you begin to homeschool, it seems that society and Satan want […]
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 […]
Our Modified MOTH Schedule~Routines rather then Times
August 4, 2010 by 8 Comments
As I have posted before, our family does not work well on a timed schedule. Therefore, Managers of their Homes did not work for us without some modification. As I add more students to our school days, I need to have a bit more of a schedule. Otherwise our days get to be chaos with […]
Nature Study Tuesday August 3~The one where it was toooooo HOT.
August 2, 2010 by 1 Comment
Yep, it has literally been tooo hot out side to really enjoy nature. Seriously, it is almost 7 pm right now and still 109 outside. One item we have enjoyed is a horse that was brought onto the farm. Yeah, isn’t he purty? We think so too, and since we are helping care for him […]
Not Back to School Blog Hop~Curriculum Week
August 2, 2010 by 2 Comments
As many of you know, I have a bit of an addiction to homeschool curriculum. Don’t all homeschool moms? I mean, there are so many choices for us to look over. My goal is to hand pick curriculum that will meet my childrens’ learning needs, styles, and desires, without breaking our budget or causing my […]
Weekly Wrap-Up Regaining Health, Preserving Veggies, and Preparing for Camp
July 23, 2010 by 2 Comments
Well, there hasn’t been hardly any school going on here. A lot of “unschooling”, but books haven’t been touched or should I say the ones we write in. ;) Our oldest since July 5th has read over 1161 pages from fifth grade through adult fiction and non-fiction books. When he isn’t doing chores, outside […]
I Got a New Camera, and I Can’t Wait to Order My FREE Photo Book and FREE Calendar!! You can get them free too!!!
July 21, 2010 by 3 Comments
My new camera takes such GREAT shots. They are all so crisp and clear. So, to celebrate, I am going to be taking pictures to fill this great offer from Vistaprint. Yep, that is right, you can get a FREE Photo Book!! Free 4×6 Photo Flip Book. The handy 4” x 6” size is easy […]
Nature Study Tuesday July 20—Insects, chickens, giant sunflowers, and sandhill plums
July 20, 2010 by 2 Comments
It has not been a week of nature here. I have limited my outside time, since, my allergic reaction. However, I did get a new to me camera yesterday. My other camera was getting to where it would not focus half the time. I am passing it to our oldest, and now have a new […]
Nature Study Tuesday July 13-Taking a Blog Break due to a back injury.
July 13, 2010 by 1 Comment
This week was a week of bugs, salamanders, and turtles. Tiger Salamanders. These are our State’s (Kansas) Amphibian. Each of these is a different Salamander. Don’t know what this is, but it has a spiny wheel on it’s back. A Spiny soft-shell turtle. I thought I would alert you all, that I am […]
Our 2010-2011 Family Homeschool and Household Notebook with Re-usable daily, weekly, and month lists.
July 6, 2010 by 15 Comments
Many of you know, how I enjoy to come up with ways to lessen our paper usage. Last spring I shared our School Binders and Page protectors. I got to thinking this year as I was printing and making homeschool forms for our school that it would be nice to do something similar for our […]
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