How to Make a Ball Jar Sewing Kit

My girls love sewing and have been taking classes that just recently ended. For a while I considered signing them up at a local handwork studio but in a more frugal move, and after talking with my girls, we’ve decided to dedicate one evening a week to sewing. When I get home from work my…

How Will They Learn Math!?!?

If you’ve been educating your kids at home or thinking about it, whether homeschooling or unschooling, you’ve inevitably had …

Thinking about the Vegetable Garden

With the mercury hitting the high 40s yesterday it got me thinking about our garden. This will be our third year of vegetable gardening and each year we get a little bit better at it. Last year was our first foray into Square Foot Gardening . Instead of having crazy mounds like we did our first year we…

Who’s Judging Who? The Homeschooling/Schooling Divide.

Green for tea ~ Orange for coffee by ?lex As a home educator (homeschooler, unschooler, whatever we are) I often feel awkward around schooling families, not because I have any issues with parents who send their children to school, but because I sometimes get the feeling that they think I am judging them for sending their…

Dinosaur Smash! – A Child Created Game for Learning Math and Measurement

My youngest loves to make up games and also manipulate existing games or pieces to create something new. When we were snowed in last week her and her Papa (who’s a big  geek) worked together to create an amazing game which she named “Dinosaur Smash!”. They assigned various attributes and points to each of her various plastic…

Tye Dyed Milk – Dinner Table Science

My father is a chemist and when I was growing up we used to do experiments at the dinner table all the time. After dinner we’d set things on fire or play with various food items and learn some valuable science lessons. I am so so happy that as my girls get older this “tradition”…

Wordless Wednesday – Fun With Geometry

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7 Under-Appreciated Things About Homeschooling

I love homeschooling but sometimes I forget how different my life (and my kid’s lives) would be if we didn’t homeschool. Here are my 7 most under-appreciated things about homeschooling that I should be immensely thankful for. Continue Reading ….

Homeschoolers are Rarely at Home.

There is a common misconception out their that homeschoolers spend their days sitting in their homes with one of their parents doing workbooks and literally schooling at home.  I’m sure that they are out there those who subscribe to this extreme version of homeschooling and bring the classroom home but have yet to meet anyone doing this.  The…

5 Great Resources for Printable Homeschooling Materials.

As I’ve talked about on here before we tend to be fairly unstructured and lean more toward the unschooling, life learning side of things but we do have binders set aside for when our kids are interested in doing some workbooks or worksheets.  They love this type of activity so it’s usually never a struggle….