Loving, Learning, Living
Pumpkins are one of my fall favorites! I love heading to the pumpkin patch with my kids and picking pumpkins to carve with them, selecting baking pumpkin and baking fresh pumpkin goodies for my family, lighting candles that fill my home with the scent of pumpkins and cinnamon! I hope you’ll have fun this month […]
Every year it seems like time passes by more quickly and this year is no different, somehow the fall season is just around the corner. While my favorite season is coming to an end sooner than I would like, fall is my second favorite season, so I am not entirely sad to say goodbye to […]
Earlier this year we went on a cruise as a family and one of the most educational experiences we had was in the Florida everglades. We had the opportunity to go to the Everglades Holiday Park. While we were there we went on an Airboat Tour where we saw live alligators, during one of their […]
As homeschoolers my children are home with me all day long, every day of the year. My husband and I strive to include them in as many aspects of life and our family business as possible. We believe that this is extremely important to their education because the skills that they will need throughout their […]
Fall homeschooling is more fun when pumpkins are part of your lessons! There are so many activities, field trips and lessons that you can teach your students about pumpkins. Getting started with a pumpkin theme is fun and easy with this pumpkin cursive handwriting pack! Your younger students will have fun practicing their handwriting with […]
Have fun with your homeschooling this fall by using themes to plan fun activity days! Pumpkins are a great fall theme for kids of all ages. There are so many field trips, activities and lessons about pumpkins that will make your fall learning fun! You can get started with a pumpkin theme today using this […]
Many times we leave Bible teaching to Sunday School teachers and Pastors in our churches, but the responsibility to raise Godly children falls our shoulders as parents. God gave us our children as a great gift and we need to be faithful to teach them through the Word of God. Teaching our children about Jesus […]
As each new homeschool year approaches plans are made and goals are set. What we tend to forget is that we’re making plans and goals without being able to see what lies ahead. At the end of the year we need to ensure that we take time to reflect and consider all of the challenges […]
Over the years fall has become my favorite season and apple picking is one of my favorite fall activities! Kick off your fall learning by using this A is for Apple Activity Pack in conjunction with my Apple Unit Study Calendar! My love for fall and the apple season is what inspired the apples in the […]
The first time I actually noticed that my son was a visual learner was during his kindergarten math class. I was trying to teach him how to add and subtract, but I knew that I didn’t want him to count using his fingers. I knew that it was a bad habit and I didn’t want […]
Kick off your new homeschool year with the fun ideas to celebrate holidays with this September planning pack! Don’t get bogged down at the beginning of the year with all of your lesson plans and textbooks. Be sure that you incorporate fun activities to encourage your children to love learning! Inside this Year Round Homeschooling […]
Over the years I’ve found that my love for English studies is not shared by many. I love teaching my children their English lessons. I have even been known to be thrilled to explain diagramming to my children. However, they do not often share my excitement in learning how to put together a sentence properly. […]
With fall just a few short weeks away, apples are nearly ready for picking at the orchard. Visiting the apple orchard is by far one of our favorite fall family activities and it would be a perfect field trip to compliment this month’s apple unit study calendar! Unit studies are a great way to encourage your […]
They say that laughter is the best medicine. I believe that laughter does more for our mind, body and soul than we truly realize. When an entire family has the opportunity to spend time laughing with each other, it is simply wonderful! It is important to have family time, even in the midst of our […]
Teaching my children to read is one of my life’s greatest accomplishments. When I look back over my life and consider all that I have done, hearing my children read their first words, knowing that I taught them how to make sense of the ABC’s…this is by far one of my most precious, priceless memories. […]
I love to plan ahead and our homeschool year always goes much smoother when I do. I haven’t been able to plan ahead as far as I’ve liked the last few years, but this year I’m going to do better about planning at least one month at a time. With the new homeschool year just […]
As a second generation homeschooler I had no idea that there were different types of schedules that homeschoolers could follow. I only knew the schedule that my mother had followed with my brothers and I, so when we began our homeschooling journey we started the Monday after Labor Day and ended the last day of […]
The most wonderful reason to open the pages of a book is to travel! When you begin reading a book you become transported through time, either backwards or forward, it doesn’t really matter. Reading grants you the ability to travel, to another time and another place. Literature is where dreams are shared, imagination takes flight […]
Holidays tend to sneak up on me and even though I have the best of intentions to teach my children the history behind each holiday, all too often when the day arrives our schedule is too busy to actually pull it off. Whether it be the busyness of our family business or just life itself, […]
Summertime homeschooling should be lots of fun homeschool moms and kids alike are ready to put the books away and head outdoors for some time in the sun! As year round homeschoolers there are a few subjects that we have grown to enjoy doing during the summer. So, I don’t stress if we don’t complete […]
Science is not my favorite subject. It wasn’t when I was in school, nor is it as a homeschool mom. I enjoy teaching science more than I do math, but it isn’t a class I get overly excited about. Throughout our homeschooling journey there are several things that I’ve learned about myself and my children. […]
If you have never created any colored sand art projects, you don’t know what you’re missing! Growing up I loved using colored sand in our homeschool art class! There are many different types of art projects that you can create using colored sand, but there are two that are my favorite. As a homeschool mom […]
When I was growing up sand art projects were extremely popular. I remember using colored sand and creating unique patterns by filling plastic containers. My mother used to display all of the colored sand art projects that my brothers and I made in various places throughout the house as part of her decor. We were […]
Making geography class fun isn’t hard to do, learning about the world is exciting! I think that too often as homeschool moms that we forget that geography is in our own backyards, just as much as it is across the ocean. Our children need to discover the geography of where they live as well as […]
Before we moved to the north woods of Maine, I had never even heard of geocaching. It didn’t take long for a local friend and her two boys to introduce us to this fun-filled adventure though! I had no idea how much fun could be had with a GPS and a couple of tokens! Now, whenever […]
Summertime is for adventuring! Kids love to go on adventures whether they’re traveling to far off places, participating in a traveling circus, dancing as the prima ballerina in front of a captive audience or fighting off pirates with the dread Pirate Roberts! Most of the time these types of adventures are found in one of two […]
My kids love to read. Typically if they aren’t doing school, chores or helping with our family business, they are engrossed in a book somewhere. There are very few places where my children don’t read, in fact, the only place where I know that one of my children won’t read is in the car. My […]
Just because summer is here doesn’t mean there aren’t fun ways to keep homeschooling. In fact, I became a year round homeschooler because I heard the words, “I’m bored.”, way too often during the summer months! To keep your kids interested in learning throughout the summer months, I encourage you to find sneaky ways to […]
It doesn’t matter how long you’ve been homeschooling, at some point in time you will need homeschool help along the way. Whether you have to tackle a subject that you struggle with, a child needs extra help or you need to change your homeschooling method, every homeschool mom needs help throughout her family’s homeschooling journey. […]
There are times when reading aloud to your children simply isn’t an option and some children do not enjoy reading. However, literature needs to be an integral part of each child’s education. Through quality works of literature our children can grow positive character, learn from other’s mistakes, build an extensive vocabulary and much, much more! Thankfully in […]
