As we prepare for our new home schooling year, I worry about all the big things. What will we learn? How can I balance our schedule? Will we accomplish the elusive enough in a day? Will we have clean underwear to wear?
My children however worry about the little things.
What new art supplies will we have?
Can [...]
If your house is anything like mine you have an abundance of children’s artwork to deal with. Now this post is not about how to organize it, but rather how to take some of your favorite pieces, those you are most sentimental about, and turn them into treasures that will last for a long time [...]
Young children who are preschool/kindergarten aged seem to enjoy counting the first 100 days of school. I did this for the first time with my now 6 year old when she was completing her Four Year Old Preschool year in our homeschool. I generally sat down and worked with her three or four days a [...]
As a keeper of the home, I am a very busy woman. I have a house to keep clean, laundry to do, cooking and grocery shopping and dishes to do, bills to pay, a garden to tend to, children to care for, and so much more.
Now it is August, and I must somehow rearrange all [...]
History is so full of stories and events that it is sometimes difficult for children to get a good grasp of it. One way to aid in this is to read the history of the world to them, in chronological order, and have them illustrate the events in their own cartoon history book. The illustrations [...]
Growing up in the country makes the idea of going green pretty easy for me. My grandmother preached ‘waste not, want not’ to us, so I find it easy to pass that on to my children as well.
1. Reduce, Re-use, Recycle
My children are exposed from a young age on how to use our resources wisely. We pass [...]