The Homeschool Highlight of the week? Definitely the sunshine and the stick fort! We’ve enjoyed glorious spring-like weather. Sunny, clear skies and lots of outdoor time. That called for a stick fort, outdoor picnics for lunch and reading a book – all sprawled out on a beach towel. Here’s a few highlights from the rest […]
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Winter Night Sky
When Daddy came home with a few things from the store, we all piled outside to help. We were delighted when we saw an almost full moon. And two of the children saw the ‘man in the moon’ for the first time. We went back in for supper and all the evening craziness. All the […]
Simple Schooling Strategies
Hodgepodge Simple Schooling Strategies Practical Prayer – how to keep a prayer life in the day to day of balancing the age range. Helpful Homeschool Habits – all the most useful ones compiled in one post. The Housekeeping Habits that Bless Our Home – a list of favorites. Jurisdictions – carving the big job of […]
Winter World of Color
After a week with snow on the ground, the rains came and cleared the way for a neighborhood walk. We set out, after lunch, in search of color. We found brilliant green moss as we swung open the back gate. It seemed a deeper green after the white of snow and the wet of rain. […]
Pastels Plus Links to Tutorials
Welcome to our Hodgepodge free listing of chalk pastels, acrylics and video art tutorials for all ages. This list of free tutorials is no longer being updated. In fact, at the following link we have an updated list of 100+ Free Art Lessons for All Ages. For the original list we began with plus a […]
Habits can drive us crazy or save us!
Today I am blogging at The One Thing, linking to this post at Holy Experience and posting it here at Habits for a Happy Home. You see my mind and heart have really been meditating on ‘good’ habits and habit training since we have just started a new year, I have one resolution to LIVE as in to […]
Workboxes/Schedule
The practical aspects of our homeschool schedule using Tapestry of Grace and workboxes Homeschool Curricula 2010-11 Homeschool Schedule 2009-10 Scheduling and Planning: Readying Tapestry + the rest Mama on Vacation: Planning and Goal Setting Workbox related posts: How we started using workboxes – Olympic strides and wielding workboxes (unit study) Olympic/workboxes – week two Workbox […]
Making Changes
We are about six weeks into our new school year and I am making some changes!! My home school is very Charlotte Mason inspired but I am not what some would call a Charlotte Mason Purist. That means that I do not try to cross every “t” or dot every “i” as far as this […]
Summer Camp at home
Maybe, like Kendra, you’d like the scoop on summer entertainment. “What on earth are we going to do while the kids are out of school?” Or, maybe, like us, you’re putting the bucks it would cost for camp towards Dave’s debt reduction plan. It could be you are simply searching for a fresh idea. Whatever […]
Having Fun with Science
Today’s post is all about SCIENCE!! My boys LOVE Science experiments, they would do them everyday if I let them!! I thought that there might be other kids who also enjoy Science, especially Science experiments so I just wanted to share with you links to some of my past post that include Science resources and experiments […]
The Habit of Having your kids Create and Think!
Spend time and find resources so that it’s easier to maintain the habit of having your kids………….. CREATE and THINK!! The benefits of having your kids Create and Think are endless. I hope you will find something useful in my list of links to some great blogs for ideas, tips, motivation and encouragement and also […]
Feeding Your Family God’s Ideas
Finally, brothers, whatever is true, whatever is noble, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is admirable—if anything is excellent or praiseworthy—think about such things. Philp. 4:8 Now these are words (Ideas) to live by!! Isn’t feeding our families these Ideas……God’s Ideas……the best reason to Home school? It is for me! Though […]