On Monday we took a GREAT field trip! We went to Plymouth Plantation in Plymouth, Massachusetts! We have been learning about the Mayflower a...

I just had to share this, it is inscribed at the top of the room in our library where the Rotunda is, (see my post on my other blog !). I fo...

I just finished a GREAT book! Big surprise it is historical fiction, I LOVE historical fiction! I started reading this book because I was i...

Isn't Core Phase GREAT!

Well yesterday, being October 1st was the kick-off for the Book-it program. We decided to have a Book-it party!! I asked all the kids to pi...

BOOK-IT!!! Yes I was in elementary school during the 80's, and I LOVED BOOK-IT! It is probably one of the very few good memories I have...

One very nice thing you can do when homeschooling... ...go to your first day of school with bare feet or slippers! Here is my Kindergartne...

You know I use to do this all for fun when I was little, my Daddy was a public school teacher and would bring me home lots of "scrap pa...

Ok so I have been planning and reading and now I have our year planned out primarily. So I thought I'd share my plan, because I am just ...

Just a little book review for you all (or y'all if your in the South)! I requested this book back in January from another library in our...

Yea, Jake finally gets to do one of the planned books!! This is one of our favorite books, enough that I bought it when Riley read it. Too b...

Legos: one of the greatest learning tools ever made!!! Last week out of A Child's History of the World we read Ch.21-All the Way Around...

For not being readers it is sure hard to get them to put the books down! :) This is what I had last night at bed time, each of them with a f...

Left to his own devices... or what my airplane crazy kid did! Riley decided that he would invent an airplane engine, so here are his diagra...

We started this book for our poetry study last week, it is GREAT! I love haiku's in general, but these are fun and beautiful plus the il...

Opera. Well of course I love the opera... that I know; Evita, Le Miserables, Martin Guerre, the usual. But the word was still a bit scary. ...

P.E. at Home!! So sorry this is sideways, I always seem to forget about that! :) I can remember my Grandma M. Making these for my sister and...

Well after reading Cherish's fun post on Children's Lit. I have been thinking of great books I have enjoyed, and then today we got a...

For our nature study this 6 weeks we are learning about rocks and minerals. I have always LOVED rocks, yea I am a bit weird, anyway I had q...

We are still tweaking and reassessing, but I thought I'd share a couple sites I have found recently and also a good article I just read ...