I think this is the biggest challenge of being a mom, problem solving, and its draining. With five kids there is always more than one problem to solve at a time Maybe its my public school education, but problem solving doesn’t always come easy to me. So we have been having this problem of kids … More Mom has to problem solve
We, being fair-weather creatures haven’t had a whole lot of outside time lately. Well its been pool time rather than exploring. Earlier in the summer my husband was taking the kids on 2-3 mile bike rides while he ran. We didn’t really have any way for our 3 year-old to keep up so I stayed … More Misadventures in Nature
I am absolutely dreading the start of another school year. I even went so far as to consider putting my children into public school. or at least some of them. We were supposed to do some work over the summer due to being behind, and here we are in August and not a pen has … More Can I be honest with you?
When we moved 3 years ago we purged considerably (I even accidentally donated all of my jeans, whoops) as we were moving into a temporary situation and had to store a lot of our stuff. After storing stuff we realized there was even more we didn’t need. Then we moved into a house that was … More Purging possessions
I am exploring different ways to keep up with morning times, and one of my thoughts is to make videos about different aspects of Nature Study, Like this is an oak tree, this is the shape of its leaf, the seed, the bark, and show different ways that the children can record this information. I’m … More Charlotte Mason Nature Study
40 days 40 bags a Lenten Sacrifice scrolls past me as I’m having my morning Facebook fix. Wait! What? Getting rid of stuff you don’t need equals sacrifice! Since when? The Israelites thought that worshipping God was all about the sacrifices, so in Micah 6 when they are being chastised for their unfaithfulness, the … More What is Real Sacrifice?
My style of homeschooling has always longed for the just read books, and they will learn. So for many years I picked the box that had a lot of books I liked in it. I learned more about what I do and do not like over the years, and was tweaking the box to the … More Library-based homeschooling, Fun-schooling style
Our Co-op’s theme for the semester was Civics, to take advantage of the rich educational experience of a presidential election. I was teaching First Grade, and there are 10 children in my class. My goal for the class was to give them an exposure to Civics as a subject and create learning activities that would … More First Grade Civics class with an emphasis on the Presidential Election
Mid year winter blues have hit full force. I made some changes before the break knowing things were just not working but here is our official line up for the rest of the 2016-2017 school year my 4th grader: Treasured Conversations for Grammar and Writing, we will not finish this by the end of the … More More Changes
building up one another 