“Sooner or later” is a phrase I try not to use at our house because unsorted laundry tends to not sort itself. If you plan to turn out productive, useful members of society then somewhere along the line you will want to introduce life skills. I’m talking about opening soup cans, operating washing machines and [...]
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I recently read an article in The Old Schoolhouse(spring 2009 issue) titled 10 Burnout Busters for Homeschool Burnout. I found myself applying each of the ‘busters’ to myself and my way of thinking and I thought it would be fun to share my interpretation. I should mention that some of my responses to her ‘busters’ [...]
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I finally got to go to a curriculum fair this past weekend! Although I rarely need to purchase much in the way of actual curriculum by the time this particular fair rolls around, I always enjoy going. It’s a time to socialize, re-energize, and browse all those wonderful books. I only bought a couple of [...]
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I don’t often cross post from my own blog, Many Little Blessings, but I thought I would share our curriculum list here at The Homeschool Classroom as well. —————————————— It’s that time of year again when homeschoolers around the country are putting together their plans for the 2009 – 2010 school year. We are not [...]
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As the summer moves on, many homeschoolers are planning their curriculum or finding new materials to strew for the coming year. It’s pretty obvious that I think board games are a wonderful teaching tool, whether you choose specifically educational games created to teach multiplication skills, US geography, or any other set of skills, or whether [...]
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Last school year we took an impromptu “field trip” to a local park that also has a small, but very nice, zoo (this is where I snapped this shot of the eagle). When we would stop to look at the animals, I would read the sign with all the information on that animal out loud, [...]
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Just a Tiny Owl: Whimsical and Inspirational Art
