This Week in School, practical life skills – March 15, 2015
This post contains affiliate links. Thank you for helping support this blog. Full Definition of PRACTICAL 1 a : of, relating to, or manifested in practice or action : not theoretical or ideal <a...
View ArticleDIY: Washing Machine Repair, Part 1
(This post contains affiliate links.) Last week, I added “repair washing machine” to the list of things I wanted to work on in Jack’s schooling. Why? I was encouraged by reading this thread at...
View ArticleGreat Homeschool Conventions in Ohio – I am going, are you?
When I spent time over Christmas Break considering what I wanted school to look like for Jack and how to achieve what I was hoping for, I began looking at various home school conventions that are held...
View ArticleThrifty Treasures
Sometimes you find things you have been wanting without actually looking for them. Here are some recent examples: As I have mentioned before, our oven stopped working back in February. While we have...
View ArticleThe Adventures of Buster Bear audiobook
I have grown to really like these books by Thornton W. Burgess. The Librivox website has many different selections of other books by Burgess, beyond The Adventures of Buster Bear. The Youtube...
View Article9 Children’s Reading Programs and Challenges – earn rewards by reading your...
With summer looming very close in front of us, one of the items on my non-gardening to-do list involves signing up for various summer reading programs. This is also a great reminder to keep...
View ArticleTaking Time To Think
What a week this has been! The gardening bug finally hit me full force and I know that this summer will look different than last, which seems to happen every year. The extra time taken to get going...
View ArticleOur Early Home-life With Toddler Foster Kids, Part 1
Before we ever had children in our home, I had been browsing blogs of homeschooling families. The idea appealed to me, as I have known several different families over the course of my life who home...
View ArticleA Tale Of Three Days – the good and not-so good
Our days do not have a steady pattern to them. It is more of a loose fitting routine that this Mama would like to be more structured and dependable. However, we are imperfect humans who have to live...
View ArticleOur Early Home-life With Toddler Foster Kids, Part 2 – Reading
Part 1 is here. I love to read, would regularly read over 400 pages weekly when I had more free time. In high school it got to a point where I had read most of the books offered in the fiction...
View ArticleToy Of The Day – Finding Excitement In The Normal Things
“Mom, what can I do?” “That’s mine! … Moooooom, he took my toy.” “Can we watch t.v.?” “Give me that back! I was playing with it first!” Ah, the sounds of summer. Whining. Arguing. Discontentment....
View ArticleBHAG – buying curriculum using Swagbucks and Bing
This past year has been a hard one. There have been a lot of things happening which interrupted our routines, stretched us as a family, and still challenge us daily. In this season, I have learned...
View ArticleWhere Relationship Meets Academics: Plans For Our 1st Grade Homeschool Year
With 3 weeks left before George starts school at the local public school, I figured I should start getting plans finalized for homeschooling Jack. Finalize being the key word. Up till now I have had...
View ArticleI Am Not Crazy!!
Yippee, I am not crazy. It was not all a figment of my imagination. I really had come across a website with an awesome free math and art curriculum earlier this summer. After so much searching for...
View ArticleQuiet But Not Lazy
While the blog may be quieter than I would like, I am spending time at the computer (and trying to catch up around the house from being gone a lot this month). One of the areas I am behind in is...
View ArticleStress and Learning
There are things I wish I had actually realized, and not just known, a few years back. This is one of them – The Neuroscience Behind Stress and Learning While they are talking about tests and the...
View ArticleAre home-school children smarter?
In case you are worried that this means I am going to become a “public school is horrible” promoter, please remember that currently one of our kids attends a public school and the other is home...
View ArticleThis Week In Home School – Week 1
This post contains some affiliate links. Have fun checking out some new books, and thank you. Ready. Set. Go! And so the school year has begun. My original intent was to not start till September....
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