Homeschooling
A New Spring Thing
Since I’ve had kids, I’ve been trying to make Easter more about Christ’s resurrection than the Easter Bunny. But in today’s materialistic society where retailers want to make money, it hasn’t been easy. Though we’ve technically never told our children the Easter Bunny, baskets of goodies were waiting for them after church, eggs were hidden…
School: A Muliple Choice Question?
I’m tired of always second guessing myself about homeschooling. I’m tired of my unfulfilled idealistic visions for homeschool. The first year, I planned my curriculum and thought we’d do fun projects and read, snuggled up on the couch. Then reality hit. Homeschooling two kids with a two-year-old tornado didn’t work very well. Plus how much…
The Conversion Of An Anti-Homeschooler
I distinctly recall the evening my sister’s friend asked if I was going to homeschool. “Uh…NO!” And I ungraciously proceeded to give her every reason in my book for why homeschooling wasn’t just wrong for me, but for anyone and everyone. I was a cocky twenty-something-year-old public school teacher, without children of my own, who…
Scrapbooking Today
My wonderful hubby will have the kids today, this evening and a tomorrow while I attempt a scrapbooking weekend to “catch up” on all the photos that are piling up. I only crop a couple times a year and I’m not much of a frufru cropper. I’m a power cropper with embellishments on special pages.…
Warning: Field Trip Gripe Fest
Why are the things meant to be fun, like a field trip to the zoo, always a struggle? The idea was simple. Go to the zoo. Bring our nature journals and write a few things about the different buildings. It’d be an easy school day. Right? Not with my kids. I can’t remember how it…
Homeschool MeMe
Home School Meme 1) One homeschooling book you have enjoyed. Haven’t really read one all the way through. Though I have a couple I should probably pick up again. 2) One resource you wouldn’t be without. My homeschool co-op, the internet, manipulatives, games, videos, the library (they know me by name, I don’t need a…
Word Power
My children and I have been studying the history of our English language. The many regional variations of speech in America alone is an amazing thing to study. In doing so, I found myself comparing these different dialects to the elusive “voice” we writers attempt to describe or try to pinpoint. Isn’t it funny, for…
Homeschool Writing Contest
Check out this great opportunity for homeschooling students. Not only do they have the chance to win $200, but the winners will be considered for publication. I’m going to try to get my boys exicted about this and maybe just maybe they’ll get published before me!
My Little Author
Timmy was all excited about entering the Reading Rainbow writing contest until we had to sit down and write a story. I’m amazed at how wonderfully put together the writing guide is. It contains everything a kid and adult needs to know about writing a story. Some of the topics cover brainstorming, characterization, setting, problem…
Simple Science and Snow Ice Cream
Snow ice cream–one of the most fun of winter treats to make and enjoy as a family. My mom used to make it for us, sending me out to collect a big bowl of fresh white snow. And it couldn’t be the first snow of the year…subsequent snows were cleaner. It helped that we lived…