Hubby and I celebrated Valentine’s Day on Saturday, so I decided to do a family Valentine’s Day celebration on Friday. To get the excitement rolling, we ditched the math books and used little sweethearts to create graphs and find the mean, median and mode of candy that I gave them. We spent much of the…
Great December Reading Oh, and have you met God? Apparently Eli has! Every time he gets his busy little fingers on a Santa ornament he says, “God.” (Very reverently, I might add.) His innocent little eyes looking up at us with complete seriousness that he is holding God right in his chubby little hands. …
This has been such a relaxing and awesome study! Using Easy Fun School’s free unit titled The Names of Jesus, we’ve spent a little time each day focusing on one of His names from the Bible and creating a scrapbook-style keepsake for each name. I chose not to include most of the other suggestions from…
This was our second week studying nativities of various artists. After seeing this nativity silhouette project from That Artist Woman, I just knew it would be perfect for our study. Here are our silhouettes as we listened to Handel’s “Messiah” for a little composer study.
These turned out so cute, and they were fairly easy for a beginning to intermediate sewing project. Draw the shape onto a piece of felt, making it about 1/4″ bigger than you’d like the finished product to be. Double the felt and cut out the front and back pieces at the same time. Decide…
Sometimes funschooling can be as simple as spending time in the kitchen creating super-easy themed food and reading a giant stack of really good books. Enjoy a laid back day of St. Patrick’s Day fun that will still go down as a wonderful memory in the minds of your children. This post contains affiliate links….
I just wanted to share what a hit this math activity was last week. Using the information sheets that the website provides, the kids had to fill out a chart to show how many presidents have come from which states. Then, they used graph paper to create a bar graph to show the information from the chart. Fun…
I know I gush often about our Keepers At Home Group, but it really is a wonderful thing! Yesterday we took a break from “practical” stuff to party! Each of the girls was asked to prepare a dish and bring the recipe. (We’re putting the recipes together in a little booklet for them.) After reading…
Here’s the latest edition of the Westward Gazette.
After perusing Christmas websites, going through my Christmas file folder and searching my computer files for Christmas ideas, I’ve put aside some things that I hope to use this December. You may be surprised to find this out about me, but when I plan a unit, I very rarely make detailed plans. Yes, I know,…
Books! We love books around here! Here’s a sampling of the Thanksgiving books sitting on our shelf this year. Anyone who’s ever used Five In A Row just has to be a fan of Cranberry Thanksgiving! We read it every year, along with other informational books and historical fiction stories. Here’s my poor attempt at a…
The kiddos made this the other day, and boy does it smell good! Pumpkin Pie Playdough 5 1/2 c flour 2 c salt 8 tsp cream of tartar 3/4 c oil 4 c water pumpkin pie spice (see below) orange food coloring (2 part yellow/1 part red) Mix ingredients together. Cook over medium-low heat and…
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