One of the things I love about homeschooling is the freedom to study what one is passionate about.  Do you know how attractive it is on a transcript for a student to have really excelled at one thing?  It’s attractive.  

Konnichiwa is hello in Japanese, by the way.  I’ll be hearing it more and more around […]

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is what we are rowing this week.

The Wild Horses of Sweetbriar
We will be doing some fun activities this week.  (You can get complete lesson plans by using Five In A Row.  Of course we will be using our new acrylic paint set to try our hand at painting horses.  We may have to cruise through some […]

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I bought something that I am so excited about.  Well, you’ve already read the title of my post, so you know what it is.  ~:-D  I was very happy to see that the complete Christy TV series is now on DVD.  It’s a GREAT price.  If you have not seen Christy before, it’s a very clean […]

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In our homeschool, we always have a themed learning center somewhere in the house.  In my living room, we have set up a coffee table display of Thanksgiving-related books.

Of course, President Lincoln is the president who made Thanksgiving a national holiday, so we have many books out about him.  I have pulled out some of our fall craft […]

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life is so much easier. 
I think the key for my own homeschooling success is consistency but not intensity.  When I consistently spend time one-on-one with my student each day, we happen upon topic after topic after topic that we can learn from.  I suppose that that is the essence of unit study, which we have […]

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Here’s an idea for a get-together that is both fun and educational.  It’s Book Character Day.  My daughter is taking part in one today.  Each child dresses up like their favorite book character.  With book in hand, each child comes dressed up and ready to view and review an assortment of books and costumes!
Games and snacks […]

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My youngest, my daughter, is sick today.  So I thought it would be fun to revisit Madeline.  We curled up on the love seat (or as she mistakenly calls it, the “love couch”) with some books.  It was fun to read Madeline and the Bad Hat.  Then we looked at France in our atlas. 

It was […]

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