Kids Books & Reading

Learning to Read Part 1

October 21, 2010

Feeling as I do about the importance of both literacy and the emotions of early childhood reading I had initial anxieties about teaching our children to read.

The Best Homeschooling Resource Ever (or) Homeschooling on a Budget

October 15, 2010

Money is an uncomfortable subject for some people and we all come from such diverse backgrounds and we need to respect those differences. What's frugal for my family may be high on the hog for someone else so I don't want to present our homeschool budget in any particular light. ...

Books for Autumn

October 13, 2010

I love autumn! I know I say this about each and every season but autumn is just so... wonderful. We are a reading homeschool family regardless of the season (ie: reading is a priority all year round) but there is something about the arrival of fall that sends us back ...

Monarchs in My Back Yard (MiMBY)

August 24, 2010

Studying caterpillars and butterflies is part of our summer science.

When The Boy is Away... The Girls Will Play

July 14, 2010

This past weekend we took a whirlwind trip up into New Brunswick to pick up Laurent from my parents. We were supposed to meet in Maine and be hiking Mt. Katahdin with them (and a bunch of other people) but the rain and thunderstorms thwarted those plans. So instead we ...

Friday's Flowers ~ Lupines

June 18, 2010

This is the last Friday's Flowers for the month of June. We will resume the first friday in July. At which time I will also be drawing a winner for my soap giveaway from the May and June participants of Friday's Flowers. I'll be totally honest with you, the photo ...