Birthdays are a very special event in a child’s life. I remember when I was growing up, I always looked forward to my birthday with excitement. It was a joyous occasion to get presents, see my friends, and celebrate the fact that I was alive. Once, I went to a pond, fished with my friends,Continue Reading
Teaching Our Children Through Inquiry Learning
Hey y’all! Think back to when you were a kid in school or homeschool. What is your best learning memory? (Share it below in the comments please!) I bet that memory isn’t of you sitting at a desk doing a worksheet. I bet that memory isn’t of you taking a test. And I bet thatContinue Reading
Band-Aid Effect
When you have children between the ages of about one and eight years old, a band aid fixes anything. This is my Kid tested and Mother approved theory. In the mind of children, it can fix things that don’t exist, or things that are age old like past bumps, bruises, or scars. If they prickContinue Reading
3 Quick and Easy Ways to Prepare for Company
Our family enjoys welcoming others into our home but with six kids and a smaller house we have to make room in our home and our hearts before opening our door to company. While I would love to entertain guests in a freshly cleaned, well-organized, beautifully decorated home, that is not going to happen anytimeContinue Reading
Dinosaur Egg Bath Bombs
We took a little homeschool field trip the other day to a local nature preserve. What this really means is that we waited until around lunchtime, when we figured everyone else would be in school, eating, or napping and then we swooped in to enjoy the entire place to ourselves for several hours. It’s ourContinue Reading
How to Create Learning Activities for Any Book
Since one of our favorite activities is reading books of all kinds, finding activities that tie into our reading is a wonderful way to extend the learning potential of the book. You don’t need to rely on a store bought curriculum to tell you what to do; you can find and develop fun, relevant activitiesContinue Reading
8 Ways to Go Paperless With Your Homeschool
Someone recently called me “crunchy”. I was a taken aback because, frankly, I don’t like to be labeled, and I didn’t quite know what “crunchy” meant. I thought, “Me, ‘crunchy’? I’m not a treehugging hippie. Sure, I recycle, shop at the farmer’s market, and make my own granola, but ‘crunchy?’ ” I’ll be honest…I’ve wouldContinue Reading
4 Everyday Ways to Teach Kids to Be Kind
Teaching kids to be kind? That’s one of the hardest things we have to do as parents. That’s because teaching kindness isn’t a simple three-step lesson plan that fits every kid. Teaching kids kindness is messy, unexpected, and requires that we, ahem, show kindness ourselves. It also doesn’t help that unkind words seem to jumpContinue Reading
God’s Word in My Heart Scripture Copywork
Valentine’s Day is right around the corner and I made this God’s word in my heart scripture copywork with scriptures all about love that I want to share with you. Copywork offers many benefits to kids, including memorization, improving penmanship, and working on grammar skills. This copywork contains 20 scriptures from the KJV about loveContinue Reading
Save Money, Eat Healthy: A Basic Guide
Many people believe eating healthy is expensive, or saving money means eating beans and rice, but when done right, that’s really not the case. Healthy eating doesn’t have to mean that you have to have all organic, all grass-fed, special expensive ingredients, or stick to a “diet.” What matters most is looking at labels, andContinue Reading
