Hello
So I've decided to try this blogging thing..This is hopefully going to cover a vast array of topics including homeschooling, preschool, homesteading, recipes, postcrossing, knitting, scrapbooking,...
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Books, Books and more books!
My daughter loves books! Fiona will sit through 8,9,10.... books at a time. She likes hearing the same book over and over (like most children) but is ok with being told "no, pick out another book, or...
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Holiday deal!
***Great Holiday Deal*** Today only (11-13-11) Bloomingdales (and who would have thought I would ever be shopping there, $52 toddler jeans? on clearance? That is ridiculous on so many levels) Has the...
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One year later
Wow. This was in drafts forever. posting it now.Well Its been almost a year since my last post. I knew I would have trouble sticking to it (I've never been good at journaling or diaries long term)...
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"B" week
Well now that I'm almost done with "C" week I guess I should do my "B" week post, LOL.Our main theme this week was BEARS, but we also did bubbles and buttons. Bears won out because there is an...
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The week of Colorful Children Chasing Cats and Causing Chaos
Week 3 of homeschooling for the year went by so fast! Actually every week seems to go by fast. This week our main themes were Colors and Clouds. For the most part the themes are just covered by...
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"D" week aka the week of Dinosaurs, Dogs and Ducks.
"D" week we read LOTS of stories dealing mostly with dinosaurs, dogs and ducks. This week we had a trip to the zoo as well as the Renaissance Faire. For activities we did a Dino egg hunt and crafts....
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Thanksgiving Lapbook
OK, lets try this again. Fiona is now in kindergarten! We are about half way through the year and just decided to scrap 95% of our curriculum and try new, but more on that later.Today's post is all...
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Our Curriculum (and its many changes) 2014-2015
So I said in my last post that we have scrapped just about all our curriculum for the year and started new in January! So the question is now what were we doing and what are we doing now and...
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I said in my last post what we are doing for the rest of this year, so this post will be my plans for the future....First off we will be doing school year-round. Works easier that way. We will be...
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The Courage of Sarah Noble - lapbook
Ever since the Thanksgiving lapbook Fiona has been BEGGGGGGING to make another lapbook. In our history program they have optional reading lists including historical fiction and informative books to...
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1st grade update
Well, its been a year since I posted, time to post again, LOL. So what has happened in the past year?Fiona is almost done with 1st grade, however being as we are going to be schooling year round, that...
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