To homeschool or not.
This really has been a hard decision for us to make. I'm having a baby in November, and it would be kind of a break not to have 4 kids at home everyday all day...But we haven't found as many pros to...
View ArticleYAY! moments.....
Today Bryan was reading the girls their bedtime story. He opened the book, and Emily read the first sentence. And so we decided to let her read as much as she wanted. The book was Cinderella. Just the...
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Homeschooling is just sunshine and cookies...
Yeah right! he he eh.We sure have our ups and downs. But that's just how life is. We are moving along nice and getting things accomplished.I've decided that my favorite thing about homeschooling is...
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ABC with Baby!
Abby has really been wanting to be involved in schooling. She loves when she wakes up early enough from her nap that she gets to finish the school day with us. We've also been lacking structure in the...
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Math and Computer
We are currently using Math-U-See for math. And I love it! (http://www.mathusee.com/) The kids do three pages (both sided) a day. Though, every other day Emily also does a test. It's fun one on one...
View ArticleFINALLY!
I think I finally picked out what I want to do for history next year with the girls!!!!Now... on to figure out science!***And by next year I mean, in like a week or so when it comes in! That's how we...
View ArticleCurriculum
Okay. I'm such a nerd.I'm starting to get everything together for school. We aren't starting in August. We're getting started and continuing as we do so. We've gotten back to doing geography. I added...
View ArticleHistory
Sorry.. I just randomly forgot to mention what history we're going to be doing. We're going to start the A Beka "My America and My World" history book. I got the teacher addition that includes...
View ArticleAnother Preschool
I'm so excited! We've started up another preschool group. Not quite as big as our last one. We'll just be doing it one day a week. I'm excited for it!!!!Home-schools are all so unique. I love seeing...
View ArticleOfficial
So, I'm starting to get nervous yet excited. I officially withdrew the registration we had filled out in May. We are officially not putting Emily in kindergarten. I don't know why making it official...
View ArticleWhy I want to homeschool?
Yesterday we were at the doctor's office for Abigail. We were waiting for her to get her x-rays done (born with DDH, and needs x-rays once a year). Hannah was looking around and saw a sign and read...
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More Crafts Please!!!
School has official started again. Though, we only took a week and 1/2 off. I've changed a bunch of the things around in schooling. So I thought I'd give myself a break long enough to get some planning...
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Nature Hunt
(can you tell my camera is broken.. Stole this picture from here)Keeping with our theme of "Trees" for the week. We went on a nature hunt in our back and front yard. It was fun. We found different...
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Cherry Tree
Stole picture (but not craft) from here.So, my camera is broken, and my back up camera broke.. So. I'm stealing pictures.. and wishing I could take pictures of all the cute things we are doing during...
View ArticleNew Plan
Right now in my life, I've decided that being the ONLY educator of my oldest is just to much... I'm kind of sad. But I've been feeling for a while that we should send her to Kindergarten... Tonight...
View ArticleOne child to school today
So... Today was my very first day only homeschooling one of my kids. Emily started kindergarten. I've decided one child is SOOOO much easier to school then two.. We just had so much fun.It's going to...
View ArticleBack to homeschooling.....
So... We're probably just going to homeschool next year.. and I couldn't be happier!!Today we're getting back to it.. and I have a whole new system.. I'm excited!!!!And that's all I'm going to write...
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Our Home Schooling Room
I feel REALLY REALLY REALLY blessed right now to be able to have a whole room dedicated to homeschooling. It won't last forever, but as long as we have it I'm going to take advantage and use it. I...
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Road Trip Continued...
So we've been on a "road trip" through the USA (we're going to other continents soon). We're using "My America and My World" and I've just added fun crafts to go with it.. These aren't planned crafts.....
View ArticleWe're still alive.
So, I haven't been the best at updated my blog. No promises in updating it more, but I will try!So. A few fun things have happened. We decided that we are only going to do homeschooling from now on...
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New Stuff
So, with a new school year comes lots of new "Stuff."First, I updated the blog. It was boring me, so it was time for a change. Second, we joined an public school program for home-schoolers. It's called...
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Home Schoolers
I grew up thinking home schooled children we're weird....I was totally right.. That's why we're homeschooling! (My youngest daughter thinks making faces is pretty much the funniest thing in the world)
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The Story of the World
Today we finally started The Story of the World. It went better then I had imagined. I loved how they put a little bit of a story in there, and gave us a character to learn about. We learned about...
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What to do with the baby?
What do you do with your preschooler and the baby while homeschooling your older kids? Usually we get it all done while the baby naps, and while the preschooler is cutting and gluing and making messes...
View ArticleNew Blog
My best friend (and homeschooling buddy) started a new blog together! Come check it out here!
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