April 14, 2018 Any Book is Curriculum In our homeschool curriculum, we have base books that everyone has to go through. These are standards like Arithmetic and Language Arts. I add vocabulary workbooks to teach etymology. Once etymology is learned, the student usually finds spelling and vocabulary far easier so [...]
April 12, 2018 Homeschooling Challenge: Their Own Pace One of the challenges I’ve discovered in our home school journey comes from my philosophy to never keep one student back for another. I allow them to advance at their own pace – if this means we spend eight weeks constantly studying [...]
March 24, 2018 “War Room” Thoughts Have you seen “War Room?” If not, please do so! It’s a wonderful movie that my children watch at least once every week or so. Miss Clara is their favorite character. Just in case you haven’t seen it, I’ll give you a tiny run [...]
A New Step in our Educational Journey [...]
My quest to eradicate nagging from my life [...]
Who knew video games were a parody of real life? [...]
Building fun with Rebeccah :-) [...]
July 25, 2017 Investigating One of the things I love about writing anything factual, like the Home Edge Readers, is the research and investigation I get to do. I love to learn about something new. I enjoy compressing it into a compact form yet still managing to include most of [...]
Once upon a time, the princess had a double break [...]
June 13, 2017 Eggs of Giants One cool thing about keeping a flock of chickens (aside from the 5am alarms) is that they pop eggs out! Before we had chickens, I thought all eggs were white and exactly the same size and shape. With the first time our Buff Orpington [...]