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I am so, so, SO very excited about what Thriving Family has put together for families to use this summer. {Little side note – if you don’t get their free magazine you should! It is an excellent resource for Christian families – lots of ideas, interesting articles and fun things like this throughout the year.} [...]
We haven’t technically stopped schooling – our approach, at least for these younger years, are much more just living real life than sit down with text books and work books. It’s working for us. We are curriculum free for now, and most things are patched together with yard sale and thrift store finds which makes [...]
As you know, I have been working through the process of crafting out our homeschool space for the years to come. I have been working with what we already own and grabbing pieces from other rooms to pull together our homeschool space in line with the vision I have for it and our needs. I [...]
Roly-Poly’s are plentiful – until you actually want to find one for science! I am reading the boys Backyard Wonders right now and we wanted to find one of these interesting crustaceans to get a closer look after we had learned a little bit more about them… it took us awhile and we could only [...]
In our homeschool this week … …a happy time when daddy came home from a military training weekend…
A few months ago I started introducing copy work into our routine, and was determined to find a way to make it an enjoyable process for us. A couple of weeks ago my youngest confided that copy work was his favorite thing, and it is true – there has been complete joy when it comes time for [...]
It’s been a few weeks since I have recorded our homeschool week and I have missed it – recording each week is good for me. It’s not how much we accomplish each week that is important, but more just the simple fact that we are moving forward and that we are enjoying the moments. This [...]
My laptop has been slowly {s-l-o-w-l-y} chugging along for a long time … and this past week has been spent reformatting it and restoring my folders and files {and then looking through old files… life passes so quickly… it feels like Judah was two yesterday} And really – this past week has somewhat followed along the lines [...]
This past week I stumbled upon the author Devin Scillian thanks to the Alphabet series books we’ve been reading – he’s written quite a few of them, and many other children’s books too. We have loved his stories and his range of writing.
In our homeschool this week … After last weeks busy-ness of appointments and sickness, this week was refreshing in its simplicity. Our only distraction was the warm weather – and we spent a good bit of our time outside with our school. My favorite thing about our week …
