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First Week of School

   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 […]

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. […]

Humble Planning

  I’ve been planning our year, and yesterday morning’s church service was such a comfort.  Our sermon, based on James 4:13-17, reminded us that our God is in charge of our lives. We are not in control, no matter how carefully we plan or how hard we work.  If our plans are not good for […]

All the Time We Need

  Thinking about the school year, I’m wondering how to fit it all in again, this business of teaching five children.   For me, one big issue is keeping up with the higher level work my teens are doing so that I can help, discuss, and teach as appropriate for the subject.  That involves planning […]