Our family has been blessed this year to be able to custom build our own home. It’s been an exciting
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homeschooling adventure of a mother of 5 who is married to a Road Warrior CEO
Our family has been blessed this year to be able to custom build our own home. It’s been an exciting
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Readers of my blog (and personal friends) have commented on the large number of field trips we take as part
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Pumpkin had her turn with the spindle box today. She did very well counting using one-to-one correspondence, but started to
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Oddness and evenness are important concepts for understanding fractions, algebra and other advanced mathematics. Purpose: To understand numbers Activity: Odd
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We are participating in Project Feederwatch and today we set up our bird feeders.The kids are hopeful that we will
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Reading Rockets Meet the Author is a great new resource I found online to help with our author studies. You
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Lesson Plan: Read chapter 27: “A new friend and an old one” from The Burgess bird book for children. Read
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Reading Rockets Meet the Author is a great new resource I found online to help with our author studies. You
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One of my new favorite math resources is the book, Family Math by Jean Kerr Stenmark, Virginia Thompson and Ruth
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Today we went on a nature walk with a group of other homeschoolers at Grassy Waters Preserve. It’s a gorgeous
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Inspired by the Great Backyard Bird Count we are now participating in Project Feederwatch. Although there is a $15 fee
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Heart of the Matter is looking for a list of your favorite Blogs that Nurture. Nominate your favorite blogs by
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Heart of the Matter is looking for a list of your favorite Blogs that Nurture.Nominate your favorite blogs by February
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We really enjoy our Science studies together. This week we discussed density and why things sink or float. We started
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We had a great first day looking for birds in our neighborhood.We spent an hour and 15 minutes birdwatching in
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The Great Backyard Bird Count started today. If you aren’t familiar with what it is, it is basically an annual
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