Making High School Fun

Making High School Fun

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Homeschooling high school is full of focused, directed study; however, I do try to provide experiences for our kids that are really, truly fun. Each family is different and your idea of fun is going to be totally different than ours, but I’ll share ours with the hopes that you are inspired. Leave a comment or link back to...

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What I Learned From Marva Collins

What I Learned From Marva Collins

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This year I’m teaching a group of 3rd graders writing, using a theme based book from one of my favorite curriculum companies, IEW. I’m also incorporating grammar, influenced by Rod and Staff, integrating vocabulary from Latin and Greek roots and phrases from Living Memory memorization as well as Latina Christiana and First...

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Create a Bountiful Fall

Create a Bountiful Fall

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Fall is in full swing, busier than ever, and I want to make the most of it! Here’s what we’re doing; I’d love to hear about your traditions, activities and rituals! -please leave a comment with a link to your blog so that we can inspire each other! Celebrate the holidays! Sukkot (Festival of Tabernacles) 11/13/11 We are...

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Planning Perspective

Planning Perspective

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Most of us are beginning a new school year. It has taken thought, effort, time and money to get to the beginning. We have planned, re-arranged, spent money and girded our loins. And we start. We take our little charges in hand and begin. This is going to be fun. They are going to love to learn, learn quickly, be sharp, look...

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Endure

Endure

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In October 2010 our family was burned out of our house. 4 days later my sister, older by one year, died from complications due to MS. We spent a week at the funeral, a month in a hotel and 10 months in a rental house. My husband went through several bouts of pneumonia and bronchitis, our kids cried and were worried and had...

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Thoroughly Fun Homeschooling

Thoroughly Fun Homeschooling

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There seems to be a lot of discussion lately in the homeschooling community about the idea that you can either have fun or be thorough. I’d like to propose that home school can be fun and thorough. My definition of “fun” goes beyond just “Woot.” I count satisfied, fulfilled and contented too. In much...

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20 Years and No Retirement

20 Years and No Retirement

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It’s that time of year for my annual wrap up when I evaluate and assess how well our homeschool year has gone before I solidify plans for the next. Since we are finishing up not one, but two decades of homeschooling, I decided it was time to do a 20 year Wrap-Up! What Worked Letting our faith inform us: As parents, working...

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What Do You Have in Your Hand?

What Do You Have in Your Hand?

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I want to share with you a question that was paradigm changing for me. It is this:  “What do you have in your hand?” What do you have, right now, that you can give, use, steward. This is the question God posed to scruffy sheep herder Moses after forty years of herding nature’s “animal most likely to accidentally kill...

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Train Up Your Child Spiritually

Train Up Your Child Spiritually

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I’ve seen it time and again in Parenting, Christian and home schooling magazines and e-zines. Cute, adorable stories about how toddlers and preschoolers understand Bible stories, act them out, pray to “Jesus, their best friend,” and are eager for spiritual things. Often, next to the article about the devoted toddler is...

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