Category: homeschool
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Hands-on Kids’ Crafts from Kiwi Crate
Let’s be real: even though I have an entire Pinterest board full of kids’ crafts, sometimes (ok, lots of times), planning those projects and making sure we have all the supplies just does not happen. Although Kathryn has free reign with our craft supplies at any time, I haven’t given the little kids that privilege…
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An excuse to share pictures of my kids
I try to take pictures every year around the start of the homeschool year so I can look back and see how little – or big – the kids look from one year til the next. Since this week’s NOT back-to-school theme is “student photos,” it’s as a good a time as any to share…
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Back to Homeschool: first week
We started {not} back to school this week, and overall it was wonderful. We celebrated our first homeschool day with chocolate milk and molasses cookies. And of course, a few photos which quickly turned into giggles and a tickle fight. Our homeschool evolution = big progress. Last year, any sort of formal work with the…
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Welcome to our homeschool room(s)
Y’all should know by now I never leave well enough alone when it comes to our homeschool spaces or furnishings in general in our house. I think my furniture rearranging is a genetic condition inherited from my mom, so blame her. Anyhoo, let’s take a little tour of our current homeschool room — which isn’t…
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Elementary Homeschool Curriculum Plans
We have two little learners in our home this year: five year old Jem and seven year old Scout. That puts both of them in the Core Phase of learning. Read more about that in this post but in short, Core Phase looks like a whole lot of just being a kid: playing, listening to…