One of the sections I included on the weekly record sheet of my mini planner was “Best Quote” because I knew there were some great quotes being said each week but because I want writing them down I was forgetting them.
This was my favorite from last week, it still makes me laugh every time I read it, where does he come up with this stuff?!
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Welcome! I thought it would be fun to share a more in-depth look into our homeschool and share some of the resources we use each day. These posts will usually be very short and give a peek into our relaxed, semi-unschooling and some of the resources we use on a daily basis. Like this morning…
This is our memory verse for the next while. I’ve been less diligent with memorizing verses than I would like and how this is the start to a better routine. There is really no formal plan for memorizing but the are lots of opportunities in the day when kind words are not the default and…
I am homeschooling two very different kids – one that would spend all day outside if he could and one that would spend all day inside if she could (until she gets outside and remembers that she actually enjoys it out there). One with enough imagination to last multiple lifetimes and one who has troubles…
Breakfast this morning suddenly turned into learning double digit addition (no carrying yet) for Mister Five. He’s really excited to be able to add up to 99! He has just a simple composition notebook that has room for a drawing or something on the top half and lines on the bottom half. I love pulling…
Today is Vimy Ridge Day. I’ve never been a history buff but am slowly getting better with history and it’s something I want my kids to learn and be interested in. Today we’ll be reading this book and watching this short video and if they are interested we’ll also watch this one.
The kids spent the better part of the morning creating a variety of machines from this book – some straight out of it, some from their imagination. The one below was from their own imagination, many edits took place, the linking cubes were added as weight to make the pencil line darker. Lots of other…