Our homeschooling and home building story.
It's been a bit since I wrote last...we were just finishing France and about to have our French feast. It was delicious. A cheese souffle, croissant and chocolate mousse with a strawberry. Yumm! Now we've about finished Germany. We'll have our German feast tomorrow. We've learned about Martin Luther, George Muller and John Wesley. We... 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 →
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 →
More fun and Christmas school this week. We planned acts of kindness for each day of the week, we made snowflakes, we learned about Joy and discussed how it's different from happiness. Our books of the week were The Night of Las Posadas and we're still working through A Tree for Peter. We recorded several... Continue Reading →
After we came home from my parents, we got to relax at home and enjoy Thanksgiving vacation. We got our apartment cleaned up and organized, spent hours at the park, and did some simple Thanksgiving activities. We read some Thanksgiving books, made a few crafts and watched the Mayflower Voyagers starring the Peanuts crew. For... Continue Reading →
This week was another adventure. We got our first colds of the season, and yes, I'm quite sure they were colds and not covid-19. For one, there were no fevers and for another there was sneezing and from everything I can find, sneezing is not a symptom of covid. However, we did follow protocol and... Continue Reading →
Another busy week around here and a fun one. Grandma was with us at the beginning of the week which was fun and we had busy days with school and play and keeping the house up and finally welcoming some rain. Cas discovered Ari's snap circuits and has really enjoyed all the different things he... Continue Reading →
Had a new schedule again this week! No more zoom and online teaching. No more "tutoring" one group of kids and "teaching" a different group online. Now I get to be with the kids I'm teaching. That is really nice. However, the stress of 2020 has also piled up on me and I've cried this... Continue Reading →
This was a good week. We got into the swing of things and it felt like we'd adjusted to our schedule. Plus it was a box week which means lots of hands on activities. Our sibling box was on seahorses and was a blast. Ari's box was on Russia and she made a model of... Continue Reading →
It's been a good and fast week here. I am plenty busy and still adapting to all the things and it is good. The smoke left on Friday and I was soooo happy to see a clear blue sky again! Some haze returned on Sabbath but still not into unhealthy levels. I feel like almost... Continue Reading →
Returning to Paradise 