I love Colonial History and, after this unit, I think my children do, too.  We covered everything from the first colonies of Roanoke, Jamestown and Plymouth to the settlement of all 13 original colonies to life in colonial times.  Thanks to our “spine” books, Hands-On History: Colonial America and Colonial Kids, the unit was packed [...]

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 am truly humbled to have been a part of the Homeschool Blog Awards.  Thank you to everyone who took the time to vote for my blog!!  For a little while I was second only to By Sun and Candlight in several of the categories.  As I told her, she is my blogging “hero” and [...]

We finished our astronomy unit this week!  The kids spent a couple of days preparing final projects and presented them in front of the video camera on Thursday.  They were able to choose whatever astronomy topic most interested them.  It’s no surprise that Caleb chose astronauts as his topic.  Mahayla focused on stars.
Caleb’s presentation included [...]

Here’s a look at our first-ever mini offices.  Mahayla made her own.  I made Caleb’s.  He is very excited about these, which was quite a shocker to me.  I expected Mahayla to be the excited one as she loves this sort of thing.
I wrote a post earlier with links to pictures and print-offs for mini [...]