Designing a home-centered life: learning, exploring, and creating with our five littles
Guys, I seriously could not be more excited to share this Creation Science for Kids - Earth Science Unit by Mia of Homeschool Curriculum Co. with you. As you already know, I fell in love with the Creation Science for Kids - Biology Study Unit. Well, I fell even harder & more quickly this time.Opening a science curriculum and reading … [Read more...]
Luke 2:11 "For unto you is born this day, in the city of David, a Savior, who is Christ the Lord." Praising God the Father for the gift of His son, our Savior, Jesus Christ, today and every day. Merry Christmas! … [Read more...]
At our CC campus today, we dissected owl pellets. Have y'all done this already? We found it very cool and also pretty gross. My boy and his dissecting partner were very excited to find a skull of {we think} a small bird. Plus 14 other small bones!At home, my biggest little happened to be reading The Imagination Station … [Read more...]
Anyone else use a chalkboard in their school space? Anyone else's look like this? The chalk buildup was out of control on mine, making it harder for my little scholars to read the chalkboard. Then, I remembered a random pointer I had read somewhere quite a while back (I believe before Pinterest - gasp!). To use soda to clean your … [Read more...]
Just over a week before Thanksgiving and I'm preparing to use Family Life's ThanksLiving Treasures, a little book of biblically based lessons on thankfulness centering around the pilgrims' journey to the first Thanksgiving. It comes with 4 small symbols and 6 postcard sized reproductions of historical paintings to accompany the lessons. … [Read more...]
As I've already shared with you, my family will be conducting an election on Tuesday to determine what we'll be eating for dinner. I've created this ballot to use for our family's voting and this blank ballot for your family's dinner voting. Oh & I'm making sure we do vote secretly, because I'd hate for undue influence to … [Read more...]
Fresh from one last bath before losing power, the littles are super excited to camp out in the basement during Hurricane Sandy. Me prepping sewing projects by lantern light during our loss of power. Group teaching on the chalkboard has been more of a regular occurrence this year resulting in only little nubs of chalk remaining in my … [Read more...]
You might remember my post, Blog Love, from a few months back that contained a short list of my favorite CC blogs. Those bloggers have been providing great resources for CC families for (at least) a few years now. Well, today, I offer you two more for the short list - this time containing new CC blogs that have popped up this year! … [Read more...]
Since October is fire safety month, a mom in our CC Community arranged for a local fire company to visit our campus during lunch break for a fire safety discussion and walk through the firetruck. My littles are still too young to be monitored for Pennsylvania state guidelines, but from what I understand, this is one of them. I'm so glad … [Read more...]
I love peeks into other families' school rooms! Whenever I'm in a friend's home, I want to snoop around their school room to see what tricks they use to organize and how their set-up works for their family of scholars. So, today, I'm giving you a peek into our school room! Giving up our formal dining room, so we could have a dedicated … [Read more...]