We’re finishing up our Thirteen Colonies & Colonial Life Unit this week.  I’ll be posting soon about the biggest chunk of the unit, but I wanted to take a minute to highlight the 13 Colonies lapbook/notebook we put together using this book.

I had to do the legwork of locating library books about each of the [...]

I promised to show you some of the fun things we’re doing as we go through Christian Kids Explore Chemistry.  I can’t brag enough about this curriculum so far.  I don’t typically follow any curriculum to a “T” – but this one I am.  It is teaching my children things that I didn’t learn until [...]

It was COLD in Central KY yesterday.  The nature walk part of our study was rather short – a quick trip down to the creek bed to collect a variety of leaves.  But once we got home – the learning and fun began!
We started with a review discussion about the purpose of leaves and why they [...]

I had the pleasure of speaking at co-op this week.  (Boy, do I miss those gals!)  We talked on the topic of healthfully and frugally making convenience mixes.  I talked about my reasons for even considering making homemade mixes in the first place – MSG and red food coloring – then added that being frugal [...]

We live in Central KY – what’s often called the ”Horse Capital of the World”.  We’re surrounded by beautiful horse farms and have the priviledge of living near the Kentucky Horse Park.  With so much horse business going on in the area, there are two premier equine hospitals within easy driving distance.  Lucky for us, Rood and Riddle [...]