As 2016 starts to wind down I wanted to take the opportunity to hear from you! I’ve created a very short reader survey (it’s nine questions and most of them are multiple choice) that I would love for you to fill out. To show my appreciation for you taking a minute out of your day…
I shared a list of Christmas books a few weeks ago, they are sweet Christmas books, but I also wanted to share a list of our favorite Christmas books that keep Christ at the center. Because, truly, without Christ, there would be no Christmas. Right now we get most of our Christmas books from the…
At the beginning of the year I decided we would try to do a brief overview of the history of the world this year. We started out with ancient history (focusing mainly on Ancient Rome) and now we are in the middle of our study on the medieval times. We’ve been enjoying reading about knights…
Poetry Tea Time is something we’ve been doing for a few months now in our homeschool and I’ve had a few people ask about it. I first came across the idea of Poetry Tea Time on Instagram and through my rabbit trail found out that the idea started with Julie from Brave Writer. Of course…
We set up our Christmas tree earlier this week and afterwards we had hot chocolate and sugar cookies fresh out of the oven and sat on the couch for our first Christmas book of the season. Evenings aren’t always so picturesque around here but it’s pretty sweet when they are. 🙂 We’ve got a number…
October taught me that while I have a plan for what we will learn each day, there is so much unintentional learning that just happens in our home. I guess that’s what happens when you have two parents that value knowledge as much as we do. LANGUAGE ARTS Lots and lots of good books were…