How lucky am I? As part of The Old Schoolhouse Magazine’s 1st ever Blog Hop, I have the honor of hosting an interview with Diana Waring! Many of you will remember how I went on an on about her History Revealed: Ancient Civilizations and the Bible curriculum last year. Sorry, but it was truly THAT…
This spring and summer will be my second time leading a nature club for our homeschool co-op, and I can’t begin to tell you how excited I am. Our nature club was a huge success last year and I truly loved leading it. As you probably know from my blog, I am very passionate about…
I’m in love! I’m in love! After reading LOTS (and I mean lots) of books to weed out the best of the best to include in our NaturExplorers units, I have to tell you that it’s very hard to find books that meet all my criteria: Living, interesting, inspirational Factual without being dry Don’t address…
In our neck of the woods, July is wild blackberry month. Over time, we’ve located several wild brambles growing along fence lines around our farm. I have to admit that harvesting is a tad difficult because of all the thorns, but well worth the effort. I wanted to share just a few pictures from our…
*Although this post is about home vegetable gardening, you’ll notice some of the pictures are from a field day class my children and I took from the University of Kentucky School of Agriculture. I wanted to encourage you that even those of us who have been gardening for years have room for growth. Your local…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Preschool Letter N Lessons (This post contains affiliate links.) The letter N didn’t seem as boring as this post might lead you to believe! Eli placed number stickers on the N template from Confessions of a Homeschooler. We did lots with numbers this week. This is a matching game that came from my co-op’s Preschool…
Welcome back to the 10 Days of Homeschooling blog hop! You can find the previous posts from my Charlotte Mason series here. I might as well go ahead and tell you that this is my weakest area. I didn’t want to leave it out of my series, though, because it truly is a very important aspect…
Welcome to day 8 of the 10 Days of Homeschooling blog hop. You can find the previous posts in my Charlotte Mason series here. CM Style Benefit One of the biggest benefits to homeschooling CM style is that much of your afternoons are free! During this time your kids can be kids and play to their…
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