Author: Cindy

I'm a homeschooling mom of three wonderful children living on a cattle farm in Central KY with my college sweetheart hubby. We're a Charlotte Mason family with bits and pieces of Classical education thrown in for good measure. We love unit studies, lapbooking, notebooking and lots of living literature! I personally enjoy encouraging and inspiring other homeschoolers.
  • Death and Decay

    Whether you’ve begun Nature Study Through the Holidays: Easter yet or not, you’ll likely be on the lookout for death and decay this week as you discuss Jesus’ death and burial. I wanted to share some photos of our fascinating finds this past week to give your some inspiration during your walk. When the perishable…

  • The Easter Story: A Nature Walk

      Easter Nature Study It’s been awhile since my Creation Club met for nature study together. I couldn’t pass up the opportunity to share the Easter story with them and do some mini-hunts based on the ideas suggested in Nature Study Through the Holidays: Easter. Easter Scavenger Hunt Printable For the class, I also created…

  • Spring Fun

    April and May were two of the busiest months I think I’ve ever had!  Here are just a few of the things that kept me busy…  (This isn’t even the half of it!)

  • Expo Competition Night

    School has been out since the end of April, meaning all the school-related posts that I’ll be publishing soon are way overdue.  Oh well, better late than never.  Our summer vacation has been nothing short of a whirlwind so far, but I wouldn’t trade the busyness with my sweet family for anything!  I’ll try to…

  • The Letter T

    Preschool Letter T Activities (This post contains affiliate links.) This is our letter poster that hangs on the alphabet wall – a tissue paper tree. Eli has loved learning about life cycles. This picture shows a turtle. Teeth stickers fill in the letter T. Playing with tools was a favorite dramatic play activity. Tinkertoys are…

  • The Letter S

    Preschool Letter S Activities (This post contains affiliate links.) Scooby Doo stickers fill the letter S. Smiley face stickers fill in a different S template. (Both of the templates above were printed from Confessions of a Homeschooler.) We planted seeds on a wet sponge to observe germination. Selling at the store was fun dramatic play….

  • The Letter R

    Preschool Lessons for the Letter R (This post contains affiliate links.) Have you ever come across a rabbit this colorful? This one rests on our alphabet wall.  I just found a printable rabbit from Google images to color, then we glued on a cotton ball tail and a googly eye. We sorted our rock collection…

  • The Lonely P

    Eli wrote his very first story a few weeks ago called The Lonely P.  I thought I’d post it for my new friends Kim Kautzer and Debbie Oldar, authors of WriteShop.  They were our wonderful, WONDERFUL booth neighbors at the Midwest Homeschool Convention last week.  They are such sweet mentors!  Be sure to check out…

  • The Letter Q

    Preschool Lessons for the Letter Q (This post contains affiliate links.) Whew!  The letter Q was hard to plan.  It was a good thing we had a service project scheduled and the weather cleared up for one of our first big nature walks of the season. A crown fit for a queen graces our alphabet…

  • The Letter P

    Preschool Lessons for the Letter P (This post contains affiliate links.) Playdough! After reading a book about penguins, Eli colored a picture of a polar region that I found online…somewhere? These pattern puzzles were made with foam animal stickers and cardstock.  One long  piece of cardstock holds four stickers of the pattern, another smaller piece…

  • The Great Chocolate Caper

    The Great Chocolate Caper by Mary Ann Carr was generously provided to me by Prufrock Press for review.  Overall, I’ve been very impressed with the logic products I’ve seen from Prufrock Press and this book is no exception. We Love Logic! The Great Chocolate Caper: A Mystery that Teaches Logic Skills is meant for the…

  • The Letter O

    Preschool Letter O Lessons (This post contains affiliate links.) At first glance, O seemed difficult to plan, but we ended up having a fun-filled and busy week. Cheerios strung on pipe cleaners made edible jewelry. Dry oatmeal was glued onto the O template. Both pages in the picture came from Confessions of a Homeschooler. O’s…