Valentine’s Day is a great opportunity to share God’s love with children! We’ve got some fantastic Preschool resources for you to use this year, and now we’ve got a few activities for you your older kiddos as well. Today I wanted to highlight how to use one of our new Valentine’s Day resources: This little printable craft would be a …Read the Rest
This year one of our homeschool goals has been to lay a good foundation for learning Spanish. It’s been one of my more challenging goals, because (let me fill you in on a little secret here…..) I don’t know Spanish. Interesting little situation isn’t it? And let me just say here, that when I started homeschooling this was one of …Read the Rest
This post has been a long time coming. You might already know that we’re using The Mystery of History this year, (you might be annoyed of all my posts about the program), but the program is amazing and has quickly become the CORE of our homeschool days. It’s that good. I quickly found myself scheduling art projects, crafts, and even …Read the Rest
Have you heard of Big I.Q. Kids? Big I.Q. Kids is an online learning program for children covering Math, Spelling, Vocabulary, and U.S. Geography. Big I.Q Kids offers Free programs and Paid Premium programs. I’ve used the Free spelling programs with each of my children in the past, so I was semi-familiar with Big I.Q Kids before we were asked …Read the Rest
Last night, I dared to look into my craft closet. I know what your thinking… and YES the entire closet if filled with crafts It’s nothing special, just a simple linen closet completly devoid of linen. I love my Craft Closet. There is a scrapbooking shelf, a sewing shelf, a knitting/yarn craft shelf and then a shelf of “Open Projects” …Read the Rest
Awesome Book + Awesome Craft = Hours of Pretend Play! My house is filled with little (blond) Inuit children making “igloos’ from my couch cushions! Make your own? Here’s the Step By Step with a printable template!
Last week I set up this Rocks and Minerals Discovery table for the kids to explore with! Let me tell you that they L-O-V-E-D it, and it was hard to wrap it up and move on to the next thing. (Don’t you just hate when you have to pry them away from learning in order to get them to eat …Read the Rest
We’ve been slowly fazing in some Rocks, Minerals, and Fossils to our science lessons, and this was one of the activities that we just had to do! So…here is a super simple way for children to make their own fossils. I had no idea that Plaster of Paris could be so easy to work with! (I had envisions of cement …Read the Rest
I have been dreaming this up for weeks! Okay, probably months, but I hesitate to let you know what a slacker I am. SO LOOK! Freaking Awesome right? Besides looking so colorful and linguistic (which of course appeases ever nerve in my homeschool body) these actually make up a fun educational game as well: Total Score, I know! So you …Read the Rest
Recently my 4 year old son (Bubba) has been showing interest and readiness to learn at a higher level then I’ve been presenting to him. I’m really excited to see the changes over the past few months: He will sit for extended periods of time He can hold a pencil the correct way most of the time without help He …Read the Rest
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