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.

  • Slavery and Civil War Plans

    Wow.  We’re on our last planned history unit of the school year.  It feels great to be ahead of schedule!  (At least in history, anyway!) I’ve sketched out the main topics I hope to cover in a unit on slavery and the Civil War.  I think we’ll plan to make this mostly a literature and…

  • Newport Aquarium

    Did you know the Newport Aquarium offers two free children’s admissions per adult in January and February each year?  I didn’t until recently.  We’ve been wanting to go forever, but haven’t wanted to fork over the steep prices.   Our first trip today was made even sweeter with the $42.oo savings! The Aquarium sits right beside…

  • Westward Expansion Projects

    (This post contains affiliate links.) Westward Expansion Unit Our time spent learning about pioneers and the Westward Expansion was so full, fun and meaningful.  As with most of our unit studies, this one was very literature-rich and included a healthy portion of project-based learning. What Did We Learn? I tried to pulled together a unit…

  • Night at the Museum Party

    (This post contains affiliate links.) Night at the Museum Movie: Watch and Learn Short and Sweet Version: Co-op Class Only Meets Twice First Meeting:  Everyone watches the movie, Night at the Museum, together.  This meeting is strictly for fun. At Home:  Each child chooses either an historical character from the movie, another interesting person from…

  • Abe Lincoln Celebration

    The Kentucky Historical Museum is a gem for KY homeschoolers.  This past weekend, they put on a HUGE event to celebrate the 200th anniversary of Abraham Lincoln’s birthday.  Since Civil War history is just around the corner for us, of course we decided to go! Meeting Abe and Mary Period Dancing An Awesome Special Museum…

  • A Lot of Valentine Fun

    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…

  • Westward Expansion Resources

    (This post contains affiliate links.) Westward Expansion Unit: Part 2 ~ Resources Part 1 ~ The Plan Part 3 ~ Project Week Westward Expansion Resources My Spine – Amanda Bennett Pioneers Unit Research Questions Teacher Planet Links Louisiana Purchase Game Lewis and Clark Lessons Lewis and Clark Mapping Activities Easy Fun School Lewis and Clark…

  • My Oldest Love

    She turned 12.  How did that happen??  Happy Birthday my sweet girl, or I suppose I should say my sweet young lady!  What a privilege and honor to be your mother! We had lots of fun celebrating with a little ice skating, a family party and a girls-only (plus a toddler) shopping trip. Oh, and…

  • What’s Under a Rock?

    Around our house  – a slug!  Can you see him near the middle on the left?  He’s pretty well camouflaged. We weren’t even doing nature study.  We were learning about measuring the volume of an irregular shape in water when I sent the kids outside to find a few rocks for measuring.  This little critter…

  • Chemisty Update

    Okay, I have to admit up front that Christian Kids Explore Chemistry is getting tough for this ol’ momma who realized early on that she was never meant to be a chemist in life.  Seriously, what I’m teaching the kids now are things I learned in high school!  Lucky for me, the book is walking…

  • My Kind of Winter Walk

    It got into the upper 50’s last week.  Just a few days before we had been hovering around 0, so the upper 50’s was truly a heat wave!  We took advantage of the warmth and headed out for a wonderful wintery walk.  I say wintery because there were still icy signs all over the place. …