We are swinging into our FIFTH year of homeschooling and my mind is just BLOWN! When I have a quiet moment to think about that, I am still amazed. Never did I think this is where life would take our family but I am so grateful it has. And I have no idea when our …
Back to School Feast
Sunday we did one of my favorite family traditions and had our annual Back to School Feast. We all look forward to this night and it was another special one. Before we get into our wonderful night, I wanted to answer a question I have gotten quite a bit the last few months: “Are we …
Summer 2021 Schoolhouse
Thoughts this Summer Oh boy, this summer has been a doozy. There has been so much going on both in reality and in my head {do I sound insane by saying that?}. What I mean is that there has just been a lot of thoughts floating around and I am just plain tired. June was …
{REVIEW} The Good and the Beautiful Vintage Drawing Levels 1 & 2
A new subject that we added this year was drawing. We are BIG art fans around here and so this was an easy subject to add in. The tricky part was keeping Jacob from doing the whole book in a week! There are five levels in the vintage drawing series from The Good and the …
Spring 2021 Schoolhouse
Thoughts this Spring If we were as productive this whole year as we were this spring – we would be SOLID! When I did our schoolhouse review for the winter, I was pretty discouraged. We were so far behind where I wanted to be pretty much all across the board. But luckily this spring, doctors …
{REVIEW} The Good and the Beautiful Typing: Level 2
Typing is an interesting subject. I say interesting in that I feel weird even calling it a subject. But it IS an important – and essential – skill to have these days. This was Jacob’s second year doing the typing curriculum from The Good and the Beautiful and it went beautifully. What is taught in …
{REVIEW} The Good and the Beautiful History Year 3 – Ancient Africa & Native North Americans
I am a behind in LIFE and that includes reviewing the amazing curriculum we have been using. But at the end of March we finished our second unit of history for the year from The Good and the Beautiful and it was so much fun! I loved that this unit included the history of Africa …
2021 – 2022 Curriculum
It sounds completely BONKERS but I feel a freakish amount of joy by getting new curriculum and planning our upcoming schoolyear. I am so excited about our upcoming year. This will be our FIFTH year homeschooling! How did that happen?! It has gone by so fast in so many ways – and I can honestly …
4th Grade Read Alouds
This is most likely the last year I will be doing read alouds with Jacob – cue tears here 😢. I LOVE LOVE LOVE doing read alouds with the kiddos. BUT the following year Benjamin will be starting kindergarten and I just don’t think I will have time to do three separate read alouds. So …
1st Grade Read Alouds
Organizing our read alouds is one of my FAVORITE activities for homeschool prep! I am still in a bit of denial that it is time to start preparing for next school year – but so excited for all of these books that Sarah and I get to dive into! I know a lot of families …