Our homeschooling and home building story.
This years Easter week has been a lot of fun! For whatever reason, not all my pictures will load. Oh well. We condensed our usual 3 week Easter unit into 1 week because this year is busy. We had fun painting, and washing feet, and tasting vinegar and studying Jesus week leading up to the... Continue Reading →
We've had a good spring break. I got our taxes filed and we got some good spring cleaning/organizing done in the apartment. I made ranger cookies and we shared them with our contractor and with our new neighbors. The kids got lots of playtime and Ari still had some school since her spring break isn't... Continue Reading →
I didn't post a blog last week because I was just trying to push through the end of the school quarter and get to spring break. It was a busy last few weeks but good. We practiced bells a lot to prepare to perform at my parents church. I learned to make a punch pillow... Continue Reading →
This week went really well at home and at work. We had fun with my parents at the beginning of the week, I had fun discussions with my students about the second coming and heaven, Cas finished his math book, and we went kite flying. Good times all around. Cas and Ari exploring a root... Continue Reading →
The couple of months after Christmas are both the months we can tend to get the most done in school...and the months that I sometimes feel are the most dull and I start planning the fun ahead to help me get through them. Anyways, I am trying to figure out what we're doing next year... Continue Reading →
We have enough boxes around now that the kids get to pick which ones they want to do at box week. Ari finished her Italy box by learning the Calco painting technique and painted the colosseum. Cas chose his glowing animals box and made a firefly puppet (that glows in the dark). Ari chose the... Continue Reading →
And I took pictures this week! The sad news this week was...our property got like 6 inches of snow in one night for the first time since we've lived in the area and...we couldn't be up there to enjoy it!!! The happy news was, we went out for soft serve ice cream instead 😛 Ari... Continue Reading →
Because of the long weekend, this was a short week. I also didn't get many pictures. We did our regular school and we spent a week observing how the moon changes and reading some books on the moon. We watched a couple videos on Martin Luther King Jr. and we learned a bit about the... Continue Reading →
After last weeks "box week" we dove back into our school books this week. Math, handwriting, reading and spelling all had their place. And we still haven't finished our science advent calendar kit...so we did a science exploration almost every day. We also did our first art and bells lesson since before Thanksgiving so those... Continue Reading →
box week! This first week back to teaching was a zoom week to encourage everyone to quarantine from any holiday travels. It went really smoothly actually. And we did a box week at home with Ivy Kids, raddish, continuing our science advent calendar and Koala Crates. Ari also started on cursive as that is one... Continue Reading →
Returning to Paradise 