Inspired by our current Tapestry of Grace studies, Nana taught us how to create castles with pastels! Gather your castle battalion of colors. Black, gray, green, light blue, brown and pink. Then, using your black, draw a simple, glass shape. This is the main structure of your castle. Next, add the ‘teeth’ on the castle […]
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Layers and Levels of Unit Studies
Unit studies serve the age range in our homeschool well. Especially when two or more subjects overlap and the learning is on several different age and grade levels. Each day this week the older three first completed their Math and English studies. Saxon K Math made for a tasty mid-morning snack identifying cracker shapes. Zuzu […]
Helpful Habit: Chasing An Answer
Photo credit ~Luci, my eldest daughter I’ve been thinking on the helpful habit to share with you this week. The one that stands out for me in watching the children work on their science projects is the habit of carving out time for them to chase after an answer. Switching up the day to allow […]
Fall Fairs All Around
If I couldn’t tell it was fall by the weather I surely could tell it by the busy. It’s fair season. Each year we submit art work and flower entries in the North Georgia State Fair. When we went this week to enter our flowers, we saw that the children’s chalk pastels had received ribbons […]
Balancing the Needs of the Age Range + Helpful Habit
Someone discovered he really likes blue kool aid. This week was chocked full. I’m still finding the days fly by as I am aiming to balance the needs of the age range. Preschooler. Kindergartener. 4th grader. 7th grader. 8th grader. Plus I have this little passion for taking pictures. Plus, we have to stay busy […]
Homeschool Meme + Weekly Wrap
1. Field of Flags on 9/11 – Kennesaw Mountain National Battlefield | 2. Using our noggins for AiG Science | 3. It’s All in the Tone @ Passionate Purposeful Parenting | 4. Dental afternoon – sealants for 2 | 5. Club Penguin Dance Party for PE! | 6. First BD cards for Eldest Girl | […]
Helpful Habit: Little Ones First
This year we started into our school year early, with just the basics – back in the hottest, most mosquito ridden days of summer. We went five weeks, still going to the pool in the mornings, building in subjects. Then, last week, we took off for the beach!! (We stayed in a beach house called […]
Homeschool Highlights: Weekly Wrap & CPF
1. Baby niece | 2. F is for Fritos (an f snack while practicing f in handwriting) | 3. Me on the Map | 4. Hurricane Irene current events | 5. Sand Art | 6. dropped butter | 7. Cicada – unexpected nature study | 8. AiG Science lesson – muscles | 9. Waiting for big sis […]
Blessed Beach
pure pleasure from the archives… I can almost smell the salt air… “Something deep in all of us yearns for God’s beauty, and we can find it no matter where we are.” ~Sue Monk Kidd A last minute decision to move up our vacation. Clothes thrown in a bag and we dashed south. Gratitude jotted […]
It’s a Full Schedule Now!
Please bear with me as this is a long post. It’s just impossible to fit in the hodgepodge of a Hodgepodge homeschool day and be brief! It’s the age range, I tell ya! —->Wow, this week was full force, ramped up and regular schedule. Starting out with an ER trip and stitches for littlest guy […]
Weekly Wrap: Nature and Encouragement
1. Even more snap circuits. | 2. Build your own sundae night (on Sunday night). | 3. Hostessing at the Heart of the Matter Conference. What a thrill to hostess Dr. Jay Wile and Terri Johnson! | 4. The silly boys that were behind the scenes (while three girls were off at Drama Troupe meeting […]
Helpful Habit – Annual Planning and Goal Setting
I’m keeping up the habit of sharing a helpful habit on Fridays. Plus, this post is also our Homeschool Weekly Wrap and the new habit I’m enjoying – Camera Phone Friday! In the true fashion of a Hodgepodge (hodgepodge |ˈhäjˌpäj|(Brit. hotchpotch ) noun [ in sing. ]a confused mixture). First, our Camera Phone Friday mosaic […]
Helpful Habit: Just the Basics
Right now, in these few days before our school year kicks off, I am taking every bit of advice from my friend Cassandra in Rest, Mama. She encourages us mothers to rest. “…Most of the advantage you could gain by resting is found here, in the last week or two of summer break, if you […]