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Vikings!!!

We are doing Explorers this month and I decided to start us out with Vikings! We did not take Memorial Day off, instead we took a canoe out and I talked to the boys about exploring, why we would do...

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1st day back!

My 30 day pic. Day 6 Teaching my son to read. Today was our first day back after Christmas break! The first part of the school day was as follows: 50 States songs on youtube, here and here The Pledge...

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Our School Day

We have just started doing All About Spelling Level 1. It is way to easy for my oldest and not really difficult for my youngest at this time. We skipped to the middle of the book to start and now I am...

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Revolutionary War books for kids

Let it begin here was amazing and powerful. Paul Revere’s Ride has beautiful illustrations to go along with the poem. The Scarlet Stocking Spy makes me cry. For God and Country is an amazing audio...

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How to encourage little Scientist.

My boys LOVE science experiments. It is their favorite part of any school day. They could do it all day! I decided I needed to make a kid friendly science kit where they could mix crazy things up to...

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How I teach History and Science without a curriculum.

I am going to attempt to explain how I choose what subjects we learn each month. I try to link together History, Science, Reading, Literature, and Geography. I used to do this by figuring out what we...

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War of 1812

Last month we learned about the War of 1812. Here are some of the books we used. The Town that Fooled the British and The Battle for Saint Michaels are about the same event. It is about a town that...

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Why I homeschool the way I do.

I was homeschooled all the way from preschool to graduation. I never spent one day in a public school. I feel blessed to be able to say that. My parents spent a lot of time and money on my 4 siblings...

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History in March ~The Underground Railroad and Abraham Lincoln

We started out March with the underground railroad for history. It was a hard subject to explain to a 5 and 6yr old. We read about Harriet Tubman in our Value Tales book and my oldest got mad. Very mad...

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Homeschooling ~The Civil War

  These are some of the books we read for our study of the Civil War a couple months ago (better late then never,right?). We did the reading guide in the Magic Tree House Lesson Plan to go along with...

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School in December

With the holidays we did not get much school done but here is a peek into what our month looked like. We finally got a new board for our All About Spelling tiles. I tried to make do with a small one to...

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The Ice Age and Glaciers

It can be difficult to find any information on the Ice Age from a Christian perspective. I ended up buying “Life in the Great Ice Age” by Michael and Beverly Oard. It follows a young boy growing up at...

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30 Day Project ~Day 2 “School”

Here is my pic I used for my 30 Day project of my kids. My youngest doing his handwriting. We use Handwriting Without Tears. The boys seem to like the workbooks. They were both getting bored with the...

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History ~Sumerian Civilization

I really liked the “Ancient Civilizations for Children-Mesopotamia” DVD and will probably get more from this series. The Epic of Gilgamesh was a little too scary two years ago when we studied this last...

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Deborah, the Hittites, Iron, & the Middle East

The last two weeks we have been learning about the early Judges of Israel, the Hittites, the Hyksos, the Middle East, and Metallurgy.   I ended up buying the book above “The Elements: A Visual...

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