Category Archives: homeschool

Story of the World (with tag alongs!)

Posted on February 27, 2013 by

We began our formal romp through (world) history when oldest was in 2nd grade & dd#2 was in Kindergarten. Story of the World #1 (SOTW1 or “Ancients”) is geared for grades 1st-5th, so we started there. I added the Activity … Continue reading →

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Writing Magic – Creating Sparks

Posted on February 18, 2013 by

To give (me and) my oldest a break from Classical Writing Homer, we started this second semester with Gail Carson Levine’s Writing Magic: Creating Stories that Fly. My dd#2 loves to write stories but struggles to finish them. There are … Continue reading →

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Baking With History

Posted on February 8, 2013 by

On our (second) trip through Story of the World 1, we have sometimes picked activities that we’ve done before. However, sometimes the kids choose to do something that we haven’t tried before. In Chapter 24, one of the activities is … Continue reading →

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Struggling Reader Turns into a Reading Lover

Posted on November 11, 2012 by

My older two have struggled to become readers. And, once they can read, they have struggled to read fluently. I have written before about the time my oldest asked my husband if he liked to read. She told him that … Continue reading →

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Mummifying a Chicken (Cornish Game Hen)

Posted on September 16, 2012 by

As part of our studies of Ancient History (Nomads/First Civilizations through Fall of Rome) using Story of the World I, we are mummifying a chicken. Well, not a chicken. We decided to scale the project down to Cornish game hen size. First … Continue reading →

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Memorization in our school

Posted on September 4, 2012 by

During the years when we’ve had some memory work (poems, bible verses), I find that the kids remember their other work (math facts, history stories, science definitions) better than in the years where I’ve slacked off. (Here is a free compilation of … Continue reading →

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Teaching Two with Spell to Write & Read (SWR)

Posted on August 22, 2012 by

This year, my oldest is moving onto a Vocabulary/Spelling combo program call Megawords. However, the next two will be using Spell to Write and Read again. I’m going to attempt to teach them both together, even though they are over … Continue reading →

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Science Fair

Posted on March 3, 2012 by

It has been rather whirlwind the last few days because the older three kids were putting together science project displays for their science fair. This entailed some help from Mom on the computer helping with formatting and printing of summary … Continue reading →

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Science/History – Something Different

Posted on September 27, 2011 by

Every year in our homeschooling journey so far, I’ve alternated days that we worked on history and science. So, we’d do history on Mondays and Wednesdays with science on Tuesdays and Thursdays. We school four days per week, so the … Continue reading →

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First Day of School

Posted on September 6, 2011 by

DD#1: Math pg 47-48, GWG5 Lesson 1.1, WT2 pg 2 & 3 DD#2: Math pg 36; GWG3 Lesson 1.1 Both: Latin Lesson 1, flashcards Ch 1-5, vocab drill (1), workbook pg 9; Religion – Week 1, Day 1; Dictation – … Continue reading →

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