Enrichment | Heart of the Matter

A Writing Lesson Your Kids May Love

‘Tis the season for writing and receiving newsletters! While I’ve never gotten on the bandwagon of writing lengthy newsletters about our family’s happenings over the past year to stuff in Christmas cards, I do enjoy...

Countdown to Christmas

Either your first language or your second language is learnt by exposure. So you need to expose your children to the new language whenever you can as much as you can, through different learning aids, taking into account your...

Mental Whiplash

There are some things about homeschooling large numbers of children that I didn’t expect. Actually everything is something of a surprise since I never planned on homeschooling, much less homeschooling nine children. But I...

Happy Birthday Jesus Printable Advent Calendar

The first day of December finds most of us, especially our children, counting down the days to Christmas. For the next twenty-five days, use this free printable advent calendar to keep little hands busy with a craft and little...

Vlogging with Jenny

Jenny Penton is a homeschooling mother of seven children and loves the closeness that being home with them provides. Un-schooling is how they live and learn and she blogs about their learning experiences at...

Take December Off

We started our school year the last week of July. (I heard those gasps). Before you judge me, we started then, because it was the height of the summer heat and mosquito biting. And we started slowly, adding in subjects. We also...

Elfish Antics

photo courtesy Milk and Cookies Though our family truly focuses Christmas around the True Meaning (Christ’s birth) and seeks to promote giving rather than receiving among our family, that doesn’t mean that we...

Around the Web With Kris

via www.jimmiescollage.com Thirteen Ways to Reuse a Page A Day Art Calendar by Jimmie’s Collage – I keep intending to order one of those Metropolitan page-a-day art calendars that Jimmie has recommended so highly. Now, I...

Fun, Friends and the Holidays

Our homeschooling group loves to get together during the holiday season for special celebrations. Over the years, we’ve enjoyed many uniquely fun times together. I hope you are inspired by one or two of these ideas for...

World’s Greatest Artists

Looking for a fun, kid friendly study of our World’s Greatest Artists? We did a super fun study on Van Gogh this month and I wanted to share some of our art projects with you! This year for art, we are going to study 8...