Yes, school does still go on even when I don't take pictures or blog! :) Leili has become a little more challenging during our times wh...

I have always planned on having something better to use as math manipulatives than our plastic pattern blocks but just never saw anything t...

Ahh, the many faces of homeschooling! Isn't it GREAT!!! The most recent Oak Meadow Newsletter is out, I really enjoyed the article ab...

Two weeks under our belts, only thirty four or so more to go! Whew!! Sorry I have tried 3 times to get this photo the right way to no avail...

Where are you? We are 17 days away! From starting our new school year! I am still feverishly getting organized, I am working hard to keep o...

How is your Fall planning going? Easy as pie? Hard as stones? I am somewhere in between, reading sites like THIS and of course THIS . Look...

Summer has just started and we have our summer nature basket started. We have a nature basket instead of a nature table these days hopefull...

~ The Reading Mother ~ by Strickland Gillilan I had a mother who read to me Sagas of pirates who scoured the sea. Cutlasses clenched in the...

A couple weeks ago the local library had an Family Art Day! We went not knowing what to expect, free for all art? No they had stations and ...

I know you can not see it, but Leili's shirt says, "Nature is my classroom! Homeschooling Rocks!" It was a sweet hand me down...

I have been teaching Fern many "action songs" as they are called around here this year. And one of my favorites from when I was a...

I have recently gotten a little bit creative with Riley and his school work. Don't get me wrong, I want to challenge him but I don't...

If you remember the post a little bit past, the "ah ha" post I said that I needed to learn a few lessons, yea well sometimes I hav...

Jake and I have been working on word families! We have done; AD, AG, AN, AP, AR, AT, AW, AY, & ED! Generally we draw a simple picture f...

A couple weeks ago Fern and I where exploring the letter E. So we made some animal ears together, here is my cutie !! Miss. Bunny Miss. Be...

Sometimes you just need a different view, you know what I mean? A few years ago I stumbled upon something good, but I did not know how good....

Our summer science has been pretty hands on lately, how about yours? Fern with her woolly bear caterpillar! The boys have caught 3 salamand...

BOOKS GLORIOUS BOOKS! (sing to the tune of food glorious food from Oliver!) Today was the big library sale in the neighboring town, and I ...

Do you remember pattern block from kindergarten? I always LOVED them, so a few years ago I splurged and bought some nice wood ones from Lake...

I saw THIS great idea over at Soule Mama , and so here is our "Spring Books". The kids think it is tons of fun, the same old boo...