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 [...]
November 11, 2021 Turn Negatives Into Positives I make that a command for myself. When we first ran our information into a loan company portal, I felt it wouldn’t happen. I kept asking for everything I could check myself. We check credit reports constantly, we knew our shortcomings and explained [...]
August 22, 2019 Our New Gym! Have you ever moved? YES! I can remember 19 different homes in my early years. My husband and I have shifted houses 10 times in almost 17 years. I am intimately aware of moving. I know just how many boxes can fit in a [...]
Cramming for Final Exams: My thoughts on this week. [...]
A Peek at our curriculum circa 2018. [...]
July 12, 2018 My Civil Air Patrol Cadet One day Louis was driving past the Saint Augustine Civil Air Patrol building and saw cadets marching around in uniform. He stopped, asked them what they were, and raced home to tell Christina that he found the perfect activity for her. She [...]
April 27, 2018 Goodbye Spring! Jaquline says “goodbye spring!” as we drop Christina and Rebeccah at their final exam. “Goodbye spring?” I ask. “Yes, goodbye spring classes,” Jaquline laughs. “Now we have summer classes!” I smile. Yes, today is the final day of spring classes for the dual enrollment students. [...]
April 12, 2018 Homeschooling Challenge: Their Own Pace One of the challenges I’ve discovered in our home school journey comes from my philosophy to never keep one student back for another. I allow them to advance at their own pace – if this means we spend eight weeks constantly studying [...]
A little about our home school organization. [...]