This week we finished up our timeline for Industrial Age through the Great Depression… And completed some activities on World War I from the same Project Pack. And finished up a turn-of-the-century fashion activity (which I primarily made because the boys wanted to see it). And played a game to practice vocabulary for Industrial Age […]
Making Your Children Your Valentine Gift
The sweetest Valentine gift I ever received was…. David Try as he might, Gary just can’t compete with this one! (Neither can I!) But.. I finally was able to come up with a creative way to show Gary how important he is to us (even if it can’t quite compete with the above blessing that was […]
Orphan Trains, Elements, and Building Big
I found out I was subbing for a homeschool class five days in advance. But that doesn’t help much when you procrastinate in hopes that you will somehow be delivered from the task you know you must face. So, as I scrambled to come up with a review time activity for class last week, I […]
A Simple Week
Today was the first day we’ve participated in the Lowe’s Build-and-Grow Clinic since our move to Tennessee, primarily because we live WAY OUT in the boonies now. But, every time we visited our nearest Lowe’s, the boys stared longingly at the upcoming clinic announcements, so… we went to Build-a-Saurus today. Though I FORGOT our camera, […]
Tycoons, Bridges, and Silly Sentences
After completing a small project on the “Indian Wars” and recalling some of the activities we did over the summer in studying Native Americans (and especially Geronimo), we took a look at advertising at the turn of the 20th century through Homeschool in the Woods (HSITW) Industrial Revolution through the Great Depression activities. We created […]
Re-starting Our Semester
It has been a time of renewal for us, and we’ve enjoyed bringing a few simple and pleasant things into our homeschool this week, like… drawing on the chalkboard, and starting our day with a new science discovery, and …Listening to Classical Music We enjoyed listening to Stravinsky and Tchaikovsky on Musopen: Free Tchaikovsky MP3s (and info) […]
Classical Conversations Planning
We are simplifying quite a bit now – making a few changes to math and language arts and providing more free time for the things my children are passionate about: history and science. I mention all that to say this: if you have to drop a program or a certain curriculum that you think you […]
In Times of Discouragement
Times of discouragement are real. Very real. It doesn’t matter how miniscule the problem seems to someone else, discouragement and defeat can cloud your vision like nothing else. It can keep you from even wanting to get up in the morning to face another day. It can keep me asking myself over and over again, […]
Twenty-Eleven’s Top Ten
The boys and I tried to decide what makes our top 10 memories for this year. (Really, it went more like, “I don’t know, Mom-Mom. All I can remember is Christmas.”) But… after a bit of somewhat unlively discussion, we did finally think up some memories from before two weeks ago. Not listed in any particular […]