I am finding extra pockets of free time during our holidays, and I thought I would use a little of it to put together a list of my favorite memories from this past year. We live an ordinary life, but it's been a good year. I am thankful that we are all healthy, and we're … Continue reading Homeschool Highlights From 2018
Season’s Greetings! Lately I haven't had much time to blog, so I’m trying to write an occasional post that will update you on the state of our homeschool. If there’s anything you’d like me to expand on, let me know. My eldest son is in 6thgrade now, which many people consider middle school. But when … Continue reading December
This year I needed to save time (as a homeschooling parent I am sure you can relate), so I wrote about our 6th and 3rd grade curriculum on the home/school/life blog only. This is a list of all the resources we're using right now in the 2018-2019 school year. I may write individual posts on … Continue reading Our 6th and 3rd Grade Homeschool Curriculum
I have written a post about our 3rd and 6th grade curriculum for the home/school/life blog, and you can see all my favorite curriculum choices on this page, which I keep updated. Since I already wrote about our curriculum, I thought I would take the time to share how I schedule our week, though it’s … Continue reading How to Create a Homeschool Schedule
It's October, and our year is well on its way. (Even if it does feel like August outside.) This year I'm putting in the effort to plan our week's lessons on the weekend, and this has been helpful for me. Writing, grammar, cursive, math, history, science, Spanish, Chinese and more -- not necessarily in that … Continue reading October
This post concludes my series of day trips that we took this summer, which also concludes our 2017-2018 school year. Day trips are some of our most educational and fun activities we can do as homeschoolers. I will try to write about some of the places we go this year too. My son picked the … Continue reading Atlanta Botanical Garden
We have been to the Georgia Aquarium several times (mostly when the boys were smaller), but I realize I have never written a newspaper column or blog post about this amazing aquarium. It used to be the largest aquarium in the world until it was surpassed by an aquarium built in Singapore in 2012. Go … Continue reading Georgia Aquarium
After finding some black swallowtail caterpillars in our garden earlier this summer, we were very surprised to find giant swallowtail caterpillars too. We were even more surprised because these caterpillars looked like bird poop! That is how my son identified them. He typed "caterpillars that look like bird poop" into a Google search engine, and … Continue reading Raising Giant Swallowtail Butterflies
One of the day trips we made this summer was to the North Georgia Zoo & Petting Farm. We had been aware of this zoo for a long time, and we'd always wanted to check it out. My boys had a great time at this zoo. This is a small and rustic zoo. Don't expect … Continue reading North Georgia Zoo & Petting Farm
It’s that time of year again, and I think this must be my favorite time of year. There’s a hint of autumn in the air (at least early in the morning). My boys have had their birthdays, and all the deciding-what-to-do-this-year and present buying is over, and they are happy with some new projects to … Continue reading Late August
