SUMMER ART WEEK: SOUTHWEST LANDSCAPES
Ok. So especially for the boys, art is not their most favorite. They don’t complain about doing it. I just know there are quite a few other things they’d rather…
SUMMER ART WEEK: COLISEUM ART AND A BUTTERFLY
I will admit, finding art projects that are appealing to both boys and girls is sometimes tricky. I don’t always cater to the trickiness, because I think that both my…
SUMMER SCHOOL INCENTIVE
At our house, school + summer = incessant whining and fussing, which I guess is to be expected. It is summer, after all. We read and do some fun…
Art Show
It’s pretty much summer. The school desks have been cleaned out and packed away. There’s a clean slate waiting for us in the fall, but for now we’ll take a deep…
Last Day of School: Summer Basket
Last Friday was the last day of school. *Woohooooo!* We’ve worked really hard this year and Vera has made school, how should I say it…interesting? So a good, long break is…
How to Create Bible Dioramas
I’m going to share something from our school room that definitely deserves a nod…it’s pretty awesome. Or I should say, my kids are pretty awesome. We created Bible Dioramas last…
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…
{monday}
Are you totally feeling the time change or what?! Ya I am. Totally. Had the hardest time getting up today. But I did. And my Monday started out…
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. …
A Titanic Event
Last weekend, my family and I had an opportunity to visit one of the most fun museums we’d ever been to…The Titanic Museum of Pigeon Forge, TN. After a…
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…
Summer School Tuesday: Bug Catcher
Good morning, chickies (i’m assuming)!! Carrying on with my Summer School Tuesdays, I wanted to share a project we did about a week and a half ago….bug catchers that you…
Summer School Tuesdays: Cultivate Learning
Last week I started a little summer series called Art on Tuesday. It took all of 6 days to decide to change it. Which totally goes with the rest of…
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