This Year, Homeschooling

More than any other year so far – even the first – this year of homeschooling has been difficult for me.  I don’t know if it is the backlog of things that didn’t get done since my husband was deployed the first part of 2011 or adding another child to the lesson planning/attention paying/intentional time [...]

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A Glossery of History Terms by the LP Family

Each week, I use our curriculum’s list of vocabulary words to quiz the kids.  The list contains words that are relevant to what we will be studying each week and usually contains between ten and twenty words.  If a child can give me a decent definition of the word or display decent knowledge of the [...]

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A Day Off?

Written February 22: So yesterday I said that we were going to take the day off, but before I knew it we had done our Bible lesson for Community Bible Study, practiced piano, done chores, had a history lesson (read several books about Abe Lincoln and George Washing with cheers for more each time one [...]

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Classes I’d Like to Teach for Our Local Homeschool Co-op

It’s that time of year again, when the co-op leader sends out an e-mail that tells us all that we’d better get busy writing our class descriptions, if we want the privilege of teaching at co-op again this coming semester.  I already know what I’m teaching (a bunch of four to seven year olds a [...]

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What We Did On Christmas Break (by jen)

the holy family It was about noon on Monday, and one of the kids looked at me and said, “So are we going to do school today?”  I just laughed as I realized that I’m not sure that I ever told them that we weren’t doing school, and I thought momentarily about saying something like, [...]

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Cool Kites

I made kites with the class that I teach on Friday afternoons, which includes my youngest child.  (We were studying ancient China and their inventions, so we made paper and kites!)  If found this great little set of instructions that makes cheap and simple kites. You might even have all the necessary supplies somewhere in [...]

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Three Weeks Later

Three weeks after I we visited the really cool park where I took the pictures in this post, we visited again.  It was amazing to see all of the changes that had taken place in such a short period of time.  I am amazed at how the days race by! Where there used to be [...]

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There’s a Fungus Among us!

I just can’t resist saying that any time I see a mushroom or other kind of fungus out in nature! Thankfully it doesn’t seem that my husband and children mind too much; it usually alerts them that there’s something fun afoot! Let’s explore a little! It’s okay; you can get close.  It won’t bite! Look [...]

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On School

Monday, Handsome was off of work, so I cleared our school calendar too. We chose to spend our day at a nearby park, not the kind of park with pavilions and towering play equipment, rather a park with miles of paths and trees and grasses blowing in the breeze.  There are and we did enjoy [...]

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Using Every Minute

I sometimes jokingly say that we should quit saying that we homeschool, because in fact we “carschool.” Tis true, we spend a mighty lot of time in the car, but we don’t always do school in the car. But some days we do. And some days the kids don’t even know it.  A while ago [...]

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