A Shepherd Experience
This Christmastime, I wanted to give my home & micro-school kids a shepherd experience. I knew we had a fun day coming up, so that would make the perfect opportunity.…
A Mom’s Day
Maybe you are a parent wondering if life for you is like it is for other parents. Maybe you are thinking about having kids and want to know what it…
A Fun Day
One of the things we do in our home/microschool is to have what we call "fun days." For us that means that we put away our normal work and lessons…
Getting Ready for Kindergarten
Kindergarten is a big step for our little kids! It's a point where we have to admit to ourselves that our baby is not a baby anymore. So bittersweet! What…
History Doesn’t Have to be Boring
My memories of elementary school history are mostly reading the chapter and answering the questions at the end of it. Does that sound familiar? It was so boring! History was…
Fun Days and Field Trips
Every classroom needs discipline, even a homeschool classroom. I learned long ago that positive consequences for good behavior are just as important as negative consequences for bad behavior. And so…
My Home Schooling Philosophy
Teaching is one of my passions. As a kid I enjoyed giving my siblings homework and spelling tests. 😆 When I got a chance to go to college, elementary education…
How to Teach your Kids to Read
Have you ever thought about the English language? How the "rules" of phonics only apply to a certain group of words, and then you have to learn another rule for…
Culture of Kindness Part 2
Earlier this year I wrote a post about teaching kindness to our kids by studying world geography in homeschool: Homeschool: Culture of Kindness. I had to write a part 2…
Make your own Homeschool Curriculum
There are so many homeschool curriculums out there! We really are so blessed to have so many choices. I don't think it's a matter of which ones are good or…