Hey Guys, Today's simple crafts is making brag tags! Last school year my kids earned brag tags by reading on their own. For this school year I decided we would make some of our own tags in addition to using the ones from last year. Instead of only getting them for reading they will also get one when ...
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Top 15 Educational Game Purchases For The School Year
One thing that really worked for us last school year was designating FRIDAY as our FUN day throughout the fall. So from our start day (mid-August) until our Christmas break we only did traditional learning 4 days a week. Friday was set aside for running errands, free reading, arts and crafts, ...
CLOSED: Birthday Giveaway: Seasons of a Mother’s Heart
This post contains affiliate links. A Slightly Better Wife (Quincey B.) is a participant in the Amazon Services LLC Associates Program, an affiliate advertising program designed to provide a means for sites to earn advertising fees by advertising and linking to amazon.com. I wanted ...
Brief Update!
Just a quick update. We are almost to the end of our first official homeschool year! Woohoo! This has been the best experience for our family. Seriously. I cannot even convey in words how much God has brought our family closer together through this. Both of the big kids have made big ...
Thankful Thursday: January 23rd, 2014
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 ...
Choosing Christmas Cheer
Some years Christmas time usually leaves me frazzled, anxious, worn out & disappointed. But this year I don't feel any of those things! I am so in love with this whole Christmas season & celebrating the birth of Jesus. I'm most thankful that I had another year of making memories with ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...