Sometimes math can be war at our house! The math teacher in me is constantly trying to invent new ways to make math engaging and fun. Over the past few weeks I have taken the card game War and developed several ways to play such that my son and I review his basic number sense [...]
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 [...]
Summertime always gives me the travel bug. I have the itch to take our classroom on the road! Typically a few hours into a trip, I begin to wonder why I thought it was a good idea to travel with two small children for such a long time. Here are a few tips that make [...]
In the next few weeks, our school year will come to an end. As we are finishing the last pages of the math workbook, or gluing down the last piece of the lap book, I am ridiculously sentimental about the ending of our first year of homeschooling. I wish I was one of those mothers [...]