It’s been a slow a-cranking-back-up this month, but January is always kind of like that for us. Even with our slowly cranking-up school days, life still seems to race by. I blink and the weekend is once again upon us. How can time pass so fast?!? Is it really 2015? [And are those really Fruit […]
America the Beautiful: U.S. History Study (1000 AD to Present)
Every time we cycle back through a year of U.S. History study, I usually piece together an assortment of various books and activities from different curriculum companies and websites based on my children’s interests. This year our family is trying out a one-year study of American history that is chronological, complete, and simple to use. […]
Hands-on History: 20th Century Study
Last year, our family pieced together a lapbook & unit study covering the events of the 20th century from our favorite unit study company, Homeschool in the Woods. Now that we are revisiting the 1900s again this semester, we are looking back through our previous work as a review. It’s one reason our family has […]
Memorize Scripture: Genesis 1, John 1, Exodus 20, and more!
Homeschooling in our home is quite imperfect. There are days when I fail miserably and my character flaws are scattered before me in a scribble-scrabbled mess. Those times I come face-to-face with my selfishness and how much like a two-year-old I can act, I just want to bury myself under the covers instead of seize […]
Christmas Memories: A Look at Our Life in December
Whew! Has it been a busy December! I had better recap this month while I have a few moments to think! We kicked off the season with our annual trip to Tractor Supply to pick out a tree “before all the good trees are gone,” complete with the subsequent quoting of favorite lines from A […]
Famous American Artists Art Study & Project Ideas
Here we provide a collection of artwork, lessons, and art project ideas for American artists Grandma Moses, Pablo Picasso, Normal Rockwell, Georgia O’Keeffe, Andrew Wyeth, Roy Lichtenstein, and Jim Davis, along with the link to a notebooking packet we created that includes notebooking pages for each of these artists. Visit this post to grab the notebooking […]
Our Art Gallery, the Video Game Incentive, and an Onion Bouquet
Although the house is a complete wreck, we have a wall to remind me to count the blessings. Back in early November, we added two sets of Helping Hands Wreaths to our art gallery wall, which appears to have just about wrapped up a little project I started over two years ago. Now that it’s full, […]
Blacklight Puppets, Fake Lungs, and Westward Ho!
This post has taken me seven weeks to write (despite the fact that it’s one of the shortest). I like to think that I inherited my tendency towards procrastination from my dear mama. …but I don’t think she has ever procrastinated. Nevertheless, I am attempting to capture memories for our annual blog book before they […]
Spy Party Games, Printables, and Memories
Whew! The past few weeks have just flown by! As of late, my ability to post all that’s happening in our lives (and in my mind) has been nearly impossible, but I couldn’t let another week pass without sharing how we were wonderfully catapulted into our busy December… by none other than our adventurous Boy […]