When I first decided to educate my children at home, Debra Bell was the first "homeschooling expert" I heard speak during an online conference. She is very humorous and encouraging in her talks. Naturally, I was excited to have the... Continue Reading →
The past week was rather lazy for us. Productive but lazy. I slept in every single day. We started school about an hour later than usual each day and even indulged in our read aloud time a bit longer too.... Continue Reading →
After our delightful study of the Canterbury Tales with Beautiful Feet Books we started studying Joan of Arc and The One Hundred Years' War between France and England. The story of St. Joan is so very sad. My children were not familiar with... Continue Reading →
My middle two kiddos are bored with their current reading curriculum. They've been begging me to let them abandon their readers and use "real books" instead since the holiday break. They were both thrilled when Memoria Press sent us the entire... Continue Reading →
The kids and I have been using Essentials 2nd Edition (Volume 1) from Logic of English for the past six weeks or so in place of our usual language arts curriculum. When I first opened the box from the company I was a bit... Continue Reading →
For the past month and a half my oldest has been using Demme Learning's Math-U-See Pre-Algebra student texts and Digital Packs. I felt fortunate when we received the opportunity for this review since Oldest needed a new math curriculum for his... Continue Reading →
For the past month my crew has enjoyed exploring a few online electives from SchoolhouseTeachers.com. We took all of December off from academic learning so the kids spent their time exploring courses suited to their interests. Oldest and Sparkles found the guitar lessons... Continue Reading →
Before I get into this section of the study I'd like to mention one little thing about the previous post. We had not yet read the Epilogue to Robing Hood when I wrote our report. During our move I had... Continue Reading →
in pursuit of wild things 