We started our day off with the Pledge, then moved into a dark closet… Before you turn me into child services…we went into the closet to discuss how hard it would be to walk through the world in the dark. What was our solution? Turn on the light! Duh 🙂…
At the start of the year, I find it helpful to remind myself why I homeschool. I tend to doubt our decision every year, sometimes I doubt my own ability to teach, sometimes I worry about social aspects, sometimes I’m just lazy and the thought of getting it all together…
We are doing the letter I this week. It seems like we just did this, but really it was with my kindergartner. And since my 3 yr old is doing a letter a week and my kindergartner is doing like 2-3 a week, I couldn’t really keep them together. Plus…
Here’s the lineup for kindergarten this week. He’s also going to be doing all of the history/social study activities with our 2nd grader too. MUS workbook, video and blocks Introduce letter Tt, though he already knows this. I also put in a geoboard for him to make some T’s and…
Hi, I finally have my boxes loaded for this week. After looking over the curriculum for the week, it looks like we’re going to have lots of fun projects, so I’m excited to start! We will be doing school tomorrow, even though its a holiday, I’d rather not have to…
Here are some photos of our garden, we planted 2 10’x4′ beds this year, and are adding a 3rd bed for next year since our plants were way too crowded! This one has corn, watermelon and cantaloupe.My ‘gems’, the yellow grape tomato, so yummy and taking over the garden might…
Hi! I just made these fun blend cards to help my Kindergartner learn his blends, you can download them here. I just printed on cardstock, then laminated for durability! Enjoy!
We did our Friday Nature Walk today, we didn’t go too far tho’. Thanks to the generosity of my neighbor, we were able to go into her backyard, and observe and draw her beautiful flowers! Let’s just say my yard isn’t quite so….um…colorful. So we talked about all the cool…
So, my 3rd born decided to enroll in the “I cut my own hair” club last night. She said she didn’t like her curls anymore and wanted them off. Praise God she didn’t get too far along before I caught her. We managed to clip the ‘pieces’ back with a…
So, I already changed my room around a little bit. I didn’t like some of the setup and wanted to get a spot for my ‘poster center’. Here are our desks and workboxes. I like the boxes separating the kids, it helps with focus issues. Here’s a closeup of one…
