A few more questions have come up regarding how I organize and plan our unit studies. You can find the first post at Unit Studies Revisited and the follow-up post at Unit Study Questions Answered. As long as you keep asking questions, I’ll keep answering. 🙂 “To clarify, it sounds like you do one unit…
We’re having so much fun studying snow, ice and frost this season! On a recent nature walk, we were looking specifically for animal tracks. We weren’t disappointed! Each of the pictures below shows prints or trails made by different animals. Unfortunately, I’m not an expert tracker yet, so I can’t identify all of them. I’ve…
Wow. Through my email, there were a lot of questions about unit studies from my original post. I’m glad because it helps me to know what needs to be clarified or expounded upon. I tried to combine all the questions into major themes which you’ll see below. Please feel free to keep asking questions, and…
It’s been well over a year since I posted anything about the nitty-gritty planning of my unit studies. I’ve had several email questions lately wondering how I plan, so I thought it might be time for a new post on the subject. The emails I’ve received have all been similar in the basic four questions…
This past weekend, our family took a Christmas train ride at the Bluegrass Railroad Museum. An old-fashioned steam engine pulled four antique passenger cars for an hour’s drive through the countryside. The cars were decked out with lights and streamers, the conductor punched letters into our tickets Polar Express style, and merry music played in…
My little guy will be three on December 23rd. Time flies! Because of the busyness of Christmas and my nephew’s birthday soon after Christmas, we always celebrate Eli’s birthday just a tad early. Three year olds have FUN partying! Our church celebrates Jesus’ birth a tad early, too. Last night was the annual Christmas pageant. …
Gauguin was an interesting character! I can’t claim that he’s my favorite artist, but we still enjoyed our time spent with him this month. Self-Portraits Below are the resources that have been in the sidebar. We won’t be doing artist or composer study in December. I’ll have resources in the sidebar again in January! Paul…
We enjoyed Duke Ellington a lot! It was refreshing to hear a different style of music than we’ve been listening to so far this semester. Duke Ellington Composer Study Resources Making Music Fun – Biography and You Tube Performances PBS Kids Biography Books We Read CD’s We Listened To
Eli is almost three! We’ve had such a good time keeping him busy this semester. Well, good time might not always describe what it was like keeping him busy! Here are just a few pictures of the little man who can frequently be heard saying, “I wanna do pwekool!” Making “painted” cookies with Mahayla. We…
Too many people think I have this homeschooling thing all together. Ha! Remember when I promised you a copy of the test at the end of our simple machines unit? Well, not only did I never create or give a test, I also decided to ditch a couple of the planned lessons. Why? Because life…
Have you ever heard of redneck paintball? I hadn’t either! Our preacher’s wife was in charge of the family event at church this month and her brilliant idea was redneck paintball. The kids had a BLAST! And, as you can see from the pictures above, my husband did, too! The weapons are mustard or ketchup…
I’ve had lots of questions about the projects we complete as part of our homeschool life. I’ve even presented a workshop specifically concerning this topic, as well as including it as a topic in my most popular workshop “Creative Homeschooling”. I’ve been wanting to write a blog post about incorporating projects into your homeschool for…