Although I am thankful for all the blessings each day brings, I'm choosing Thursday's to showcase them. This week I'm thankful for social media. Even though I struggle with finding a healthy relationship with it. I am very thankful it's here for encouragement when it comes to homeschooling my ...
Homeschool Mascot: FISH
You may remember last May/June (somewhere around the end of the school year) I picked up two Betta fish during a quick Wal-Mart run. It was impulsive and not well thought out. We didn't have tanks, yes I said tankS, because those type of fish have to be kept separate ...
The Work Place
My home is my work place. I am here more than anyone else. I am in charge of more physical duties here than anyone else. I am not complaining. I take pride in this. God has provided me a beautiful home, and a husband who allows me to be a housewife. This year we took a leap of faith by also ...
Homeschool: Binder
This cute binder was at Target, & happened to be with the 70 percent off school supplies. It was sooo me, but I didn't really have a use for it.. I bought it anyway.. I have got to quit doing that. Thankfully I was able to come up with an idea. I'm using it to organize worksheets that I come ...
Daily Perspective Through Handwriting
Just a quick daily dose of perspective from this homeschooling momma. This is what my kindergartner did with his handwriting today. My first thought: Why can't he follow the rules! Surely a public school teacher would have had him redo his work & he would have forever been tagged as the weird ...
18 inch doll PJ shirt & tu-tu
My oldest daugther has been wanting to learn how to sew. We decided this week to go ahead and tackle her first sewing machine project! Because it was her first project we started off simple. We took a onesie that no longer fit her baby sister and hemmed it into a PJ shirt for the doll. Thrifty ...
What I Heard Wednesday: 8-21-13
So I'm telling the boy as we're creating a mini book that he needs to cut very carefully on the lines. His response to me in his laid back, 'I'm so cool' voice: "Yeah, so I can sell this thing to uncle Jeremy". Yes son, those were my thoughts exactly! Uncle Jeremy would love to have a mini book ...
2013-2014 Homeschool Curriculum Choices
Well folks, we.are.crazy. Yep, I said crazy. At least that's what people keep asking us, "are you guys crazy?" We've got 3 kids ages; 10, 6, and 9 months. And we've decided to homeschool both of the big kids this year! *warm smile*. I'm not one of those moms who can't wait to get her kids ...
Thoughtful Thursdays
Through our summer homeschooling journey we have started a new tradition called Thoughtful Thursdays. Last Thursday we went to Chuck E Cheese. We played and had a wonderful time. In the end we had almost 300 tickets between the four of us. We gave the tickets to someone else, rather than spending ...
Week 2 Preparation & Execution.
Sunday night, after the two youngest fell asleep, I was semi-frantically putting together our 2nd week of homeschool. Thankfully I kind of had a plan already in place (I jot down ideas on my phone when they come to me). So all I needed to do was pull all the papers into one place and load the work ...
FREE planner sheets
Today I am creating planning sheets to help keep our summer homeschooling organized. They aren't perfect or fancy by any means, but they'll get the job done. That is, if I remember to not only fill them out, but also refer back to them! ha! You're surely welcome to take a ...
Last Day of School!
It's our last official day of homeschool for this school year! That is as long as everything that is supposed to get finished, gets finished today. ;) We will have about a week off. During that time we will do Vacation Bible School, and just PLAY. Then we start SUMMER HOMESCHOOL! Fun, right? ...
School days: Greater than & less than
Watch "Alligator greater than by Peter Weatherall" on YouTube Videos like this one really help my little guy to learn. Videos like this also make me think I should be making educational YouTube videos. What fun (or not so fun) videos have your kids watched lately to help them better understand a ...
School Days: Magnets On an Oil Drip Pan
This sweet boy is independently practicing his 3 letter words. We use a large oil drip pan from Wal-Mart or an auto supply store (about $10) to attach our kid magnets to. I like this way better than getting scratches on the fridge. The magnets nicely fit in a tote when not in use, and the oil ...
Melted Crayon Shapes
What would you do with an ice cream bucket FULL of crayons? Well I'll tell you what I did. I sorted them by color and saved all of them longer than 2 inches for precious little hands to color with. The ones under about 2 inches went back in the bucket to be melted into new exciting shapes! I did ...
Time flies when…
Time flies when...You're having fun! You knew that already didn't you? Well it's been just over a month since I've blogged, and I can tell you it's because I have been having A BLAST! We learned a few months back that my daughter is dyslexic. Praise God! I sound crazy, right? Well it feels like ...