Last week was the first week for many schools around here, but we just continued our everyday life, with company, the flu, and preserving garden produce. I felt a wee bit of concern for my ‘undereducated’ children as I watched the school busses zip by several times a day. But, when I casually […]
Homeschool
Science and Nature Study Plans for the Year
Here are this year’s science plans for each of our five children. The Lord willing, we will have a wonderful science year. Our three oldest work independently for much of each chapter, using the largely self-teaching Apologia textbook series. I work closely with the younger two, reading the book out loud, listening to narrations, […]
Two Reasons to Organize Mama
Whether our homeschool style is structured or free-flowing (and this has varied by month, by year and by subject area), we have discovered that the most learning happens when I am organized. When mom knows what she is doing, and why, and where, and when, and how, everything else follows so much more smoothly. […]