All things bright and beautiful, All creatures great and small, All things wise and wonderful, The Lord God made them all. Each little flower that opens, Each little bird that sings, He made their glowing colours, He made their tiny wings. The purple-headed mountain, The river running by, The sunset and the morning, That brightens …
Thoughts this Winter Oh this winter. As I am writing this, we are in the thick of what feels like MADNESS, so I will try and reflect on the whole winter and not just our current status! This winter treated us really well in many ways. We are still, miraculously, where I kind of wanted …
“For by him were all things created, that are in heaven, and that are in earth, visible and invisible, whether they be thrones, or dominions, or principalities, or powers; all things were created by him, and for him: And he is before all things, and by him all things consist.” Colossians 1:16 – 17 This …
I am playing catch up with our school reviews – but in November we finished our first history unit of the year! We are in the final year of The Good and the Beautiful history courses! After this year, we will repeat the course cycles again and I am already getting excited to repeat them! …
This post is SO LONG OVERDUE. We finished up our third year of history last summer and I really debated about just skipping this post BUT I want to remember all of the goodness of this year of history. This was our third year with The Good and the Beautiful for history and we continue …
Every year we do “Christmas School” a little different and I am actually really okay with it! This year was more on the simpler side and it totally worked this year. Last year, we started celebrating ADVENT and I love it! It has been a tradition we have wholeheartedly embraced. To go along with advent, …
Thoughts this Autumn This autumn has been surprisingly wonderful for our little schoolhouse. I was worried going into this school year. I was worried how I was going to manage all of the needs of my little crew but WE ARE DOING IT! My day is FULL but oh so good. I feel like I …
I have wanted to do a family poetry party for a LONG time! I heard the idea several years ago in the homeschooling world and I thought it sounded so wonderful – and it WAS! We found a great book from The Good and the Beautiful called Poetry Parties for Littles: Insects and Spiders with …
This last summer we finished our final unit of Year 3 History from The Good and the Beautiful. This is a bit of a somber unit – but I kind of feel like it should be given the topic. This unit was focused on World War II. As hard as some of these topics were …
*** Oh my goodness, I cannot believe how far behind I am in our curriculum review. It’s on the list of things to do! But we finished this unit clear back in June and so I will do my best to document all of the goodness! *** In June, we finished our third unit of …