I love to do science in the summer. Did you notice, ambulance I said “do” and not “teach”? Teaching is fine for the school year when there are facts to memorize, dosage but at our house summer is when those facts are brought to practical use. Summer science at our house is all about exploration. Whether we are doing experiments from a book or exploring the creek, we are … [Read more...] about Let Them Explore
Summer School or Not?
I've been seeing a big issue recently in the homeschool world that has been generating much discussion. D0 you homeschool through the summer, or do you take the summer off? I should qualify that schooling here is meaning official book and curriculum schooling. Not the ever day, life learning we should be teaching/doing continually as parents. In one camp, schedules … [Read more...] about Summer School or Not?
Homeschool Special Needs: Riding Therapy
For the last year or so our daughter has been involved in riding therapy. I can’t even quite remember what made us look into riding therapy to begin with, check only that our daughter who is quite fearful of many things, drugs seemed to really love horses. For some reason she was completely drawn to these huge creatures. Please don’t ask her to ride along for a car wash, … [Read more...] about Homeschool Special Needs: Riding Therapy
Letting go of “My Precious”
This is my Great-Grandmother's tea set. When it was passed down to me as a little girl, my Mother was very nervous, but she let me play with it when I was 10 years old. When I got the tea set it had been cracked and glued back together, a few of the tea cups were missing handles. It had been well loved. Somewhere it changed from a well-loved and used tea set to on display. … [Read more...] about Letting go of “My Precious”
Homeschool Manifesto + GIVEAWAY
Today we have a guest post from Misty Krasawski of Encouraging Beautiful Motherhood and a giveaway of her new book Back to Homeschool! If you're a homeschooling mama, you know the weight of that title. No matter what your reasons were for beginning the journey of home education, they were enough to launch you into a realm unknown to the vast majority of people around … [Read more...] about Homeschool Manifesto + GIVEAWAY