Hop into the secret lives of frogs and toads with this comprehensive curriculum guide, perfect for spring and summer nature studies. Packed with over 70 engaging lessons and 15 notebooking pages, you’ll explore habitats, life cycles, and fascinating behaviors through hands-on activities and field observations. Ideal for any amphibian enthusiast, this guide provides year-round learning opportunities even without direct access to live creatures.
We follow a four-year cycle for teaching science. In the elementary years, science picture books have helped me introduce and explain scientific topics so well that I consider them as much a part of the curriculum as any other tool we use to teach science. How We Learn Science While we do use the occasional…
Please welcome Jen Vail, a regular feature writer here at Our Journey Westward! She’s here to encourage you that the homeschool extras matter – for your children AND YOU. If you enjoy the blog post, let her know in the comments! I have a confession to make: I do not homeschool all of my children….
Summer field trips have been a consistent tool in my toolbox to beat boredom and get in some sneaky learning. Living on a cattle farm and having a library full of nature studies, you’d think boredom wouldn’t be an issue at my house, but all kids get bored here and there. A summer break from…
The air is (slightly) cooler, the shadows are getting longer, and this morning I found four yellow leaves on the front porch. That can only mean one thing…fall is upon us! Fall is one of my favorite times of the year – our homeschool is fresh and exciting, holidays are just around the corner, the…
It’s almost time to begin again! We are getting ready to kick off another year of homeschooling, and, as usual, I’m filled with excitement and anticipation! I’ve been resting and reading all summer, getting our curriculum selected and our schedule fine-tuned. I’ve got supplies, I’ve got ideas, and I’ve got the spark ready to go….
Ah…high school. Why do I love homeschooling high school so much? Mostly because my teens no longer need my constant attention and instruction. Ha! While I’m not kidding about independent learning, there are other reasons I really enjoy the high school homeschool: Above all, it fills me with joy to see the fruit of all the academic lessons,…
Homeschooling Workshops Hi there! If you haven’t visited my Speaker Information Page, please do so first. While this page provides detailed information about the workshops I currently provide, you’ll want to learn more about me as a speaker. If you’ve just come over from the Speaker Information Page, welcome! I’m so glad you’re interested in learning more…
Each school year, we love to add exciting lessons that encourage a love for special days and seasons. Over the years, I’ve posted about bunches of holiday and seasonal lessons and gathered them all together here for a quick reference. If these ideas aren’t enough, be sure to check out my Pinterest page that overflows…
I told you I’ve been slacking on my posts! Four botany study posts in four days doesn’t mean we’ve been studying botany in such depth every day. In fact, each topic took us at least a week to cover. Today’s post is about one of the lessons spent learning about fungi. After some activities from…
I promised a Q&A follow-up from the CM Series and here it is. I hope I found all the questions! If not, or if you think of additional questions, please let me know! The Q&A is in no particular order, so I hope you can muddle through it without too much frustration. Corrie – I’ve…
We’ve had a wonderful month of nature study! I don’t know whether the fruits and nuts were abundant enough to make our nature studies such a success or the weather was so picture perfect that anything would’ve been a success. Either way, we had fun! We’re off to study ponds in October! Here are the…
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