Last week was our first week of homeschool this year and I have to say, I was pretty impressed with how well it was going. As I was filling out the kids’ notebooks with their assignments for the next day on Wednesday evening, I felt pretty pleased with the routine we had established. Not only was …
We started our school year yesterday. I have realized early August is the perfect time for us to begin school. We are all rather tired of the heat and it just makes sense to start now. My kids were not exactly thrilled, with the exception of Levi, my kindergartener. We always start our school year with new school supplies. …
After a full month of crazy busyness in June, things are finally slowing down enough around here for me to start planning our next school year. I have had several people ask me how I plan out my school year so I thought I would share it in a post. I already know what curriculum …
Now that the bulk of our school year is done, I am taking the time to look back over my plans for the past year to figure out what worked well and what failed miserably. We finished our regular school year a week and a half ago, and we are finishing up our 2-week break before we …
I was recently interviewed by Jenny from Faith and Good Works about life as a homeschool mom. It is part of a blog series that interviews 25 moms about their homeschooling journey.
I am always looking for fun ways to expose my kids to other cultures. It is really important to me that I raise my kids to see outside of the world they live in; to see how others live; and to see that the way we live and the way we do things is just one small …
Reading is one of my least favorite subjects to teach. It is painful listening to kids slowly sounding out their words. I am now teaching 2 of my boys to read at the same time. Please pray for my sanity! One of my boys is really struggling with his reading. He has a hard time focusing and …
If I am honest, I have to admit that up until recently we didn’t do much reading aloud in our house. By “reading aloud” I mean reading longer chapter books to my kids. We often read story books but longer books did not seem to work. I’ve had this weird sense of guilt about it because of all …
I was scrolling through my blog feed reader and I noticed I was marking more as “read” than I was actually “reading.” I subscribe to a lot of blogs; many of them are homeschooling blogs. They have good content written by people who are teaching their kids well. But I have found that reading them …
It always amazes me how much my kids learn from different apps. Sometimes I use them during our school time to occupy the younger kids or during a doctor’s appointment when I have to take all the kids along with me. Below are some of the apps we are using. Feel free to comment and let me know your favorite …