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Math at Breakfast
Breakfast this morning suddenly turned into learning double digit addition (no carrying yet) for Mister Five. He’s really excited to be able to add up to 99! He has just a simple composition notebook that has room for a drawing or something on the top half and lines on the bottom half. I love pulling…
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Gadget Inventions
The kids spent the better part of the morning creating a variety of machines from this book – some straight out of it, some from their imagination. The one below was from their own imagination, many edits took place, the linking cubes were added as weight to make the pencil line darker. Lots of other…
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Welcome to our Homeschool Snapshots!
Welcome! I thought it would be fun to share a more in-depth look into our homeschool and share some of the resources we use each day. These posts will usually be very short and give a peek into our relaxed, semi-unschooling and some of the resources we use on a daily basis. Like this morning…
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Lessons Gleaned Sitting at the Feet of Veteran Homeschoolers
Last week I had the opportunity to get together with a number of other homeschooling moms. What I didn’t realize going into it was how much wisdom I would come away with. For the most part my in-person homeschooling community consists of families that are in the same general stage we are currently in. Some…
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The Best Picture Books About Easter (That Keep Christ at the Center)
I did not anticipate how hard this book list would be to write. There are so many Easter picture books about chicks and bunnies and chocolate but unfortunately very few about Christ . . . And He’s the reason for the celebration! Anyway, I did manage to include some books on this list some of…
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For the Mama Who Thinks She Could Never Homeschool Because She Can’t Teach *Insert Subject Here*
When we made the official decision to homeschool I felt fairly confident about my ability to teach every subject except science (well, I was a little leery about math too, but I already covered that). While science wasn’t necessarily a subject I struggled with in school it was definitely a subject I wasn’t very interested…