HOMESCHOOLING DURING A MOVE
A month ago, I pictured myself happily packing boxes while my three big kids sat nearby working on their math lessons while the baby ate snacks and watched Baby Einstein–the…
OUR HOMESCHOOL CURRICULUM CHOICES 2014-15: REVISED
The best thing about homeschooling is having the ability to change our minds…and our homeschool curriculum choices. I have said over and over that homeschooling provides the most amazing of…
HOW I TEACH TO MULTIPLE LEARNING STYLES
Over the weekend, I was talking to a neighbor about her son’s struggle with math. While you’ll never hear me bash public school here, I will say that not being able…
ONE WEEK DOWN
This week has been anticipated for half the summer. So much planning and organizing goes into the first week of school. Books are ordered, school room is set up, copies…
BACK TO ROUTINE: THE FALL PLAN
The weather this week has been absolutely divine–cool with a hint of fall, matching exactly with the mood of the hustle and bustle of readying schedules and the school room. I’ve gotten bitten by the…
OUR SCHOOL ROOM
The “School To Do” list received a grandiose checkmark this weekend as I put the last nail in the wall in our school room. Among other things, I worked…
OUR HOMESCHOOL CURRICULUM CHOICES 2014-2015
Let me preface by stating that our homeschool curriculum choices for this year were not as easy as it usually is for me. The only reason is this: I have a…
History · Homeschool · import · Learning Well
ANCIENT GREECE UNIT STUDY
I don’t share every single unit study or art project or book we read in our homeschool, but sometimes there’s things that are just way too good not to share…our…
5 THINGS I LEARNED FROM HOMESCHOOL CONFERENCES
I have had the luck of going to not one, but two homeschool conferences this year. I know to non-homeschoolers this might sound like a bore-fest of a bunch of…
HOMESCHOOL CURRICULUM CHOICES
Week one is done and we are into our second week and like typical homeschool fashion it has gone completely not according to plan. Mice and baby and general chaos limited the lovely first week…
My Favorite Homeschool Resources-Old and New
I spent all day Saturday ALONE at a homeschool conference. It was lovely. Not only did I get to look at (and smell) approximately 50,000 books and art supplies, I…
EARLY 20th CENTURY HISTORY UNIT STUDY
Good Friday morning, friends. I really can’t believe it’s Friday already, but I guess time flies when life is crazy and always changing and never changing and busy and monotonous….
Homeschool · import · Learning Well · Science
BLOOD AND GUTS: APOLOGIA ANATOMY REVIEW
Sometimes I feel like we’ve accomplished so little in school and it takes some looking back to remind myself that yes, we’ve done a lot! Science is a hard subject…
Fine Art Tuesday
As the sole teacher at the Hutchinson Academy of Learning, I’ve been tightening some loose ends, planning ahead, and organizing as I prepare to add another student into the mix. …
Our Homeschool Curriculum Choices 2012-2013
I get asked all the time what we use for this subject or that subject..and I want to know what others are using too. So here’s the low down for…
MASTER HOMESCHOOL BINDER
Part of doing a six-week master plan escalated into organizing all the random files and folders and loose papers I had all over for our homeschool stuff. Not like…
THE 6-WEEK MASTER PLAN
I am so excited about this post. I’m most certain I am more excited about it than you will be, but I’m telling you anyway because I told Jarrod and…
HOMESCHOOL CURRICULUM CHOICES 2010-2011
This is such a great time for moms…homeschooling or non-homeschooling. It’s a great time because going back to school means one HUGE thing…routine! I love routine…I crave routine! I have…
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