Earlier this week I mentioned my big ole bucket of Truth, Goodness, and Beauty intentions and how tough it can be to incorporate these vital elements into our homeschool during this particular season of our lives. Now I’d like to share a tool that has made it easier for us to enjoy a bit of classical music study without […]
Adding a bucket of beauty to homeschooling
I do not understand what I do. For what I want to do I do not do, but what I hate I do. Romans 7:15 Here I am, compelled to share a moment of raw, honest truth. This year has been a struggle for me. A real honest-to-goodness struggle. Not a struggle on whether we […]
Africa Countries Capitals Flashcards
We are now headed into Africa with our world geography memorization, which warrants a new set of Africa countries and capitals flashcards! In addition to drilling which capital goes with which country, we’re covering up the country name that’s on the bottom of each card to drill the countries by shape/location. You can download the […]
Science Scripture Connections: Earth Science
As we focus on our mission of seeking first the kingdom of God and on ensuring that He is central to all aspects of our learning, I offer here some simple spiritual applications for science experiments (from Janice VanCleave’s 201 Awesome, Magical, Bizarre, & Incredible Experiments). However, my first encouragement to others is to pray and […]
Map Tracing: A Geography Plan with Printable Atlas
With our oldest stepping into middle school this year, I may seem a bit obsessed with geography, but it’s for good reason. I’ve realized how challenging the memorization of world geography can be. Result: I’m starting to slowly equip our current 4th grader for it. After asking our 9-year-old to trace South America daily for a few weeks, […]
Asia Country & Capitals Flashcards
Here we go! It’s a new semester, so we are heading into memorizing Asia with our middle schooler. A few disclaimers – provisos – quid pro quo about these cards: For the Asian island locator maps, you may need to imagine which islands are highlighted. (It’s far-too-likely I will not get around to sprucing them up […]
Timeline Thumbnails, Revisited
I shared this idea at the beginning of the school year but then fell into a Wile-E-Coyote, racing-to-catch-up-with-my-pants frenzy. This semester alone I’ve had a thousand-and-one ideas, but, as always, those ideas have fallen short of implementation. (haha. If I could just generate ideas all my life without doing anything, I’d be set!) So here I […]
Christmas Wrap 2015
It’s December already?!? What d’ya mean? We can’t be nearing the end of Twenty-Fifteen!?! Back twelve quick months our minds must now zap, To attempt to write our yearly Christmas Wrap. We started our year with a trip to see Our family over in northwest Tennessee. We followed that up with the Nashville Symphony […]
When the boxes don’t get checked
Every semester it happens. I come up with these ideal ideals, and then I feel obliged to come back and tell you how things really panned out. This is what I do for some strange reason. I plan. I have this driving need to have a plan in place even if it completely falls apart. But plans are […]