Back a couple of years ago, I posted a picture on Instagram of a basket with Christmas books inside. Several people messaged me to ask how our “Christmas basket” functioned. This question left me perplexed. In short, if we wanted to read a Christmas book, we’d get one; then we’d read it. That was the…
‘Tis the season to read umpteen posts in mom forums that begin, “We don’t do the Santa thing…” and blogs across the world will twist together the words Santa with deception and lies. On the opposite hand, we have all those angry folks talking about robbing kids of magic. If one thing is for certain…
We logged a lot of hours homeschooling this week. We normally take December completely off for a breather. However November had a lot of off days, so I decided to homeschool on. The beauty of homeschooling is you can take a break when you need to and come back to it when you’re ready to…
Round these parts we’ve been frantically baby proofing for the newly mobile six-month-old. There’s never, ever enough hours in a day. We typically take a break from homeschooling in December, but with so many unintentional breaks in November, I thought it’d be best if we just power onward with tons of review. I have every…
Boy have I been a terrible blogger lately or what? Regardless of post frequency, we have been keeping very busy — as a homeschooling family of six is wont to do. Halloween and Disney continued to throw our October routine off, so we’ve adapted school time. I thought I’d give a few snapshots of what…
If you noticed it was a little quiet around here, we just got a fairly direct hit from record-breaking hurricane Michael last week. We came through mostly unscathed, but it knocked our phone lines and power out for a bit. To get an idea of the aftermath imagine if a third of the trees in…
If you are looking for high-quality language cards, here is a great resource — Stages Learning Materials asked me to review some of their Language builder sets. We have been using these cards in all sorts of homeschool activities lately; they are an excellent addition to our science and language work. The cards are great quality,…
Rocked the past two weeks like a homeschool ninja.
How to put together a watercolor basket. Step 1) Find a pretty basket. Step 2) Find a fun container to hold your water. Step 3) Add watercolor paper. Step 4) Find some watercolor pencils or paints. Step 5) Find a subject. Step 6) Sketch and paint! Easy enough. I added this little set of goodies…
Sharing all the contents of our animal classification boxes (in the Montessori continent box style) one by one. Up first is our bird box. It’s been so much fun putting these together — almost as much fun as watching the kids explore each animal hands-on. Animal classification cards freebie here. 🙂 We read the books…
