Cute fun planners with stickers and washi tape are all the rage and they have eeked over into the world of homeschool planners as well. I’m all about a pretty planner, but even more importantly, my planner has to work for me and help keep me organized as a...
Sometimes, I find it really hard to believe that my kids are 12 and 15. It seems like just a few minutes ago, they were 2 and 5, or at the most 5 and 8. I recall our earliest summers and they felt LONG. The problem was that without our usual routine, I felt a little...
I’m pretty sure the thought of handing over a saw to your young child is enough to melt your innards, but kids love the opportunity to be involved with using real tools and building things! Obviously, any time to you set out to introduce something like the topic of...
If you have ever reached a point in your homeschool year where you were on lesson 25 in science and only on lesson nine in history — you might need a loop schedule. If you ever feel behind in your homeschool and it is stressing you out — you might need a...
Teaching a bunch of middle-school age kids science is no easy feat. I’m just glad that I don’t have to do it. In fact I have outsourced science to two wonderful friends via our homeschool co-op for the past six years now. We have used a variety of science...
The inside of the car feels like a sauna, and I fear that smell means I didn’t get all of the milkshake up out of the rug. I’m trying to load 7 boxes, 18 backpacks, 2 folders with loose papers, a wet paper towel with beans which will germinate next week, a freshly...
