I worry. I’ve always worried but it’s become worse since I have become a parent. I can see all of the potential injuries that the world has to offer. This was not so much of an issue when my kids were younger and the potential injuries small but they have gotten older and have a…
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Scavenger Hunts as a Learning Tool
We just got back from a family reunion in Virgina. Everyone had a great time, inspite of the 100+ degree temperatures. One of the activities that was planned for the reunion was a scavenger hunt that took us to various sites that were important to the town and battle of Manassas. My family, along with…
Pausing to Reflect
The homeschooling resource center that my kids go to had their pausing ceremony this week. It’s a time for everyone in the community to get together, for the kids to perform something if they wish and a time to say “see ya later” to the older teens who are moving on to other things. The…
Water, Weed and Wait!
That’s what our greenhouse looked like on Friday but now our greenhouse is empty! That’s because over the weekend we moved all of our plants into the garden and finished planing any seeds that still needed to be sewn. Now we just water, weed and wait! Continue Reading ….
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…
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….
Can Home-schooled Kids be “Successful”?
Image via Wikipedia What do Julian Assange, The Jonas Brothers and Condoleezza Rice all have in common? They were all home-schooled. For quite some time I have been looking for a list of successful contemporary homeschoolers and The World’s 15 Most Extraordinary Homeschoolers fits the bill. This list includes others that have worked on the human genome project, excelled at professional…
5 Life Lessons Learned from Homeschooling
I was thinking today about our homeschooling journey and how much I personally have learned from the experience so here are 5 life lessons that I have learned from homeschooling. Worrying is useless and gets you nowhere. I used to, and still do somewhat, worry about the path I’m taking my girls down but I try to…