Science Add-Ons To Curriculum October 22, 2022 One of the advantages to homeschooling is being able to pick curricula. Most of us would agree that our children can recite movie lines – sometimes even if they’ve just seen the movie twice. We used BBC Nature with David Attenborough for science [...]
A Peek At Textbooks: Autumn 2022 October 19, 2022 Our textbooks are usually a medley of what works best. This year Christina and Becky have college books only. Christina still digs into our American Government high school textbook this semester because it “makes it easy to understand” as she’s taking [...]
Where to find my printed books in person! #ImSoExcited #WGVGymnastics [...]
What to do when your big sister's college class has an amazing field trip? Double it as a homeschool nature exploration day! [...]
School supplies on a budget - our methods [...]
Finding Teaching Textbooks, a new style for a different learner [...]
A Peek at our curriculum circa 2018. [...]
April 14, 2018 Any Book is Curriculum In our homeschool curriculum, we have base books that everyone has to go through. These are standards like Arithmetic and Language Arts. I add vocabulary workbooks to teach etymology. Once etymology is learned, the student usually finds spelling and vocabulary far easier so [...]
October 26, 2017 Birthday Day Off We are a homeschool family. Sometimes this means we goof off and play games on birthdays instead of do bookwork. But consider how much learning is crammed into everyday life! Money skills: Today’s practicum included working and saving (racing around to do enough chores [...]