Our school days are slooooowly returning. The first thing I add back in is Morning Time! It is our favorite time of the day. We gather around for breakfast or a snack and read together. Morning Time is done "family style" with all of our children (ages 5-9) joining in as we loop through each… Continue reading Our Family’s Morning Basket Favorites
Category: Homeschool
Printing your Peaceful Press Curriculum
Summer is in full swing which means it's that time of the year again! Do you spend time over the summer planning and ordering your homeschool curriculum? I secretly LOVE it. Image Credit: Peaceful Press Have you tried any curriculum published by The Peaceful Press? We literally own everything they have ever made! We use… Continue reading Printing your Peaceful Press Curriculum
2018-2019 Curriculum Recap
The end of our school year is quickly approaching. As I start planning our next school year, I wanted to first share a curriculum recap. You might remember my posts from last summer where I shared the homeschool resources we were hoping to use this school year. Looking back, I can say we used most… Continue reading 2018-2019 Curriculum Recap
Our Year-Round Homeschool Schedule
This year is flying by. I'm starting to prep for the next school year and looking back at what worked, and what did not. This past year, we did school year-round and it worked out great! Much less time was spent reviewing from the previous year. We try to follow a "sabbath schedule" of 6… Continue reading Our Year-Round Homeschool Schedule
A Playful Pioneers Picture Album
Our latest Playful Pioneers Adventures. Make sure to check back throughout the year! “At noontime everyone was allowed to move about the schoolroom and talk quietly. Eliza Jane opened the dinner-pail on her desk. It held bread-and-butter and sausage, doughnuts and apples, and four delicious apple turnovers, their plump crusts filled with melting slices of… Continue reading A Playful Pioneers Picture Album
Cloudy Day Pooh Bear Cookies! (Vanilla Sugar Cutouts with Honey Icing)
"Tut-tut, it looks like rain." We baked up some cloudy day cookies as we countdown to see the movie. We were inspired by one of our favorite chapters during our summer read-aloud. We used The Winnie the Pooh Cookie Book for the recipe. We first gathered up all our ingredients for the batter: butter,… Continue reading Cloudy Day Pooh Bear Cookies! (Vanilla Sugar Cutouts with Honey Icing)
Tea Time with Pooh Bear
I picked up Pooh's Library in the spring and decided it would be our summer read-aloud. This box set contains four hardcover books: the two original Pooh novels, Winnie-the-Pooh and The House at Pooh Corner, and Milne's two poetry collections, Now We Are Six and When We Were Very Young, which features the very first appearance of Pooh. It is the… Continue reading Tea Time with Pooh Bear
Playful Pioneers 2018-2019
From 12-2 pm we have Lit Lunch with Playful Pioneers I so badly wanted to do Playful Pioneers last year but we didn’t have the time. (Our children attended a 2-day homeschool tutorial last year.) But I think it will work out well now that the youngest is eager to join us. I… Continue reading Playful Pioneers 2018-2019
History and Geography 2018-2019
At 2:00 pm we do our History and Geography lessons. We will combine different resources to study Early American History. I LOVE the big book of history stories, keys of history game, and audio from The Good and the Beautiful. We will use their year 1 and year 2 (not pictured)… Continue reading History and Geography 2018-2019
Nature Study and Art 2018-2019
At 3:00 pm we do Nature Study, Art, and Science We plan to do our science lessons twice a week with nature study and art lessons sprinkled throughout. See our science books here. Nature Study: at least once a week the kids bring their little journals outside and scribble down the beauty and… Continue reading Nature Study and Art 2018-2019
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