I hope everyone is doing better this year. Our life is good and busy😁 one thing we’ve really been focusing on is our gardens. Here are a few pictures of those. I’m super excited to see how well they do with intensive management. We’ve been getting absolutely buckets of rain and I’m personally hoping for a little drier weather but
Well for some people the school year hasn’t ended yet but for some of us the new year is going to begin pretty soon. We usually start July 1st so we get out the first part of March. This year my 3 older kids will all be taking part in our more formal school. Lilly (4) will be doing a
I don’t know about you but life can get a bit overwhelming and when you try to do too much it can be hugely overwhelming! That’s why this late winter/early spring we switched back to CTCMath. Having 3 kids who are doing math was getting to be too much with the parent intensive program I was using. (It was a
Our official homeschool year is out! Yay! While I absolutely love homeschooling I also love the even greater and flexibility that our off time brings. However, don’t stop learning in this time. In fact we tend to focus more on Science, History and outdoor pursuits like gardening. On thing we’re doing this spring is an awesome study on The Book
If you read my blog at all you know I absolutely love books, (especially homeschooling books)! So when I received my new catalog/magazine for Memoria Press and saw the book Simply Classical I just knew I needed to read it😍 The funny part is I had no idea how it would impact my homeschool! Disclaimer: I received this book for
Ok, so I’m being completely upfront and honest here…I don’t remember really learning grammar. I know I did have to learn something about it but obviously it didn’t stick with me because other than remembering what a noun, pronoun and verb were very foggily, that was it! So, how’s a mama to teach something she doesn’t know? Enter….IEW to the
I had heard of The Great Courses but had never tried them. I’ve been wanting to but honestly couldn’t decide on which ones I wanted most so when I got the opportunity to review their yearly streaming service where you can access ALL courses for one very modest fee I was super excited! I thought this would be absolutely perfect
I don’t know maybe I’m the only one who deals with very active boys but I have 2 of them! What’s a homeschool mama to do? They don’t like to sit still, their concentration ability is pretty slim and they move ALL. THE. TIME! Anyone else relate? Disclaimer: I use affiliate links of products I love and use! Do you
Are you a homeschooling mom deeply in need of encouragement? Are you getting discouraged with the day-to-day details of your homeschool? If so then you need to read Inspirational Homeschooling by Yvonne Strachan. I was blessed this winter to find Yvonne online and offered to review her book. (I love homeschooling books so I was super excited to do this.)
We have been adding more and more IEW to our homeschooling program and the start of this new semester we added IEW and the Primary Art of Language beginner grade level program set! I’m using this with my 7 and 4 year old kids. My 4 year old is rather advanced for her age and my 7 year old has