Benjamin finished the Preschool course from The Good and the Beautiful in January and it was an extremely happy day! School has not come easy for Mr. Ben and he ended up doing this course twice. Letters were just not clicking for him – BUT I have spent a lot of time researching preschool curriculums …
Thoughts this Autumn It has been almost a year since I have done a schoolhouse review and I am, honestly, really bummed about it. 2022 has been filled with so many blessings. And I hope to write more on that when I get to our New Year’s post. But one thing that has been a …
This last summer, The Good and the Beautiful changed their science curriculum. We have been using The Good and the Beautiful for our science curriculum for the last five years – and we LOVE it – so I was very unsure about the change. It was one of those situations where “if it’s not broke …
Here was my plan going into Lydia’s first preschool year in school. Overall Thoughts Looking forward with Lydia’s education fills me with a lot of emotions. I am excited. Excited to see her learn. I am nervous. Nervous if I have it in me to learn how to teach her in a way that works …
As with the previous kiddos’ post – we are well into our school year. But here was our plan moving into Benjamin’s kindergarten year. Overall Thoughts Ben has been a tricky kiddo for me to understand how he learns best. Ben is definitely our most active out of our kids. He loves to use his …
We may well be a third of the way through our homeschool year – but here we are writing about curriculum plans! I’ve tweaked Sarah’s plan a little bit – but I’ll talk more about that later in our seasonal schoolhouse post. Here is where we started. Overall Thoughts Sarah is a delight to teach. …
In the past, I have written this post usually around May for the upcoming year. Here I am, in January. And that pretty much sums up my life. I seem to be always playing catch up lately. But better late than never! I love looking back on what we have done each year. So this …
This is Benjamin’s first year doing formal read alouds and we are so excited! It’s such a special time and I can’t wait to do it with him. Many of these books are picture books and can be read in one sitting – but there are some early chapter books sprinkled in – that have …
Sarah and I have a pretty exciting group of books that we are going to snuggle and read together this year! Our biggest undertaking is that we want to read the entire Little House on the Prairie series. We can’t wait! Here is our line up:
This year we are shaking up our read alouds a little bit. Jacob really enjoys his read alouds and we just weren’t ready to give those up yet. However, I couldn’t figure out how to make the timing work. I know most homeschool families do one read aloud as a whole family, but I have …