So after my husband, who is normally the source of my clutter problem, told me that he thought our homeschool ‘stuff’ was getting too cluttered, I decided I’d better do something drastic. So yesterday after school was done, I told everyone “grab your desks kids, we’re movin!”and I proceeded to…
I am making a shift towards Abeka for my 2nd grader, the curriculum arrived today and looks promising! I’m still trying to figure out how to include the fun stuff from MFW into it so we’ll see how this year pans out! We’ll start our new stuff either next week…
Field Trip! Today we went to the Vision Heirs Living History Day. It’s a fun re-enactment of the signing of the Declaration of Independence and a great way to see what it was like to live in the days of the pioneers. As we are going through this in our…
Our memory verse this week is John 6:35….Jesus as the bread of life. Since we made butter yesterday, I thought maybe we could make bread today. Now, I think it’s important to note that I’m not the breadmaker in the family, my husband is, and since I only have 1…
I’m not sure what it’s like where you live, but it was cold here today! Rainy, and even some big fluffy snowflakes this morning, to which my son replied “Awesome, now I can go get on my snowsuit?!?” (The kid has been waiting for snow since last winter.) We had…
We’re starting the letter U this week, I found this fun website, No Time For Flashcards!They have a ton of fun ideas, and if you click on the “Letter of the week” they have ideas for each letter. We are going to try the Umbrella U craft later this week.…
Hi all, you’ll be happy to know (or at least I am) that my super AWESOME husband has just order me a Canon Powershot, small, super cute, and last but definitely NOT least: its PINK! Yahoo! Can’t wait to get back to pics on my blog! In the meantime, boxes…
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…
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…
So far we love our new magnets from Amazon! I downloaded fun worksheets from here, and then you just break out a cookie sheet and voila! Magnet fun! So of course they’re in her first box for tomorrow, we have the Letter A this week, so watch for more Letter…
