Middle Years
An Emerging High Schooler, Interest-led, Learner-Specific Homeschool Curriculum
October 15, 2012
Oh my word. That's a mouthful of a title. I originally started this post as an overview of all three of our kids' homeschool curriculum. Yikes. If I had continued down that track it would never have seen the light of day. So I decided to limit this to Céline's ...
Kids in the Kitchen
September 28, 2012
As much as I value kitchen work and feeding my family, I realized that if I was going to work towards some of my other goals I needed to spend less time in the kitchen.
Online Teaching ~ Some recommends from my own life
September 27, 2012
I'm in a season of learning. As homeschoolers we place a high value on lifelong learning. In fact, it's one of our family's core values. Not only do Damien and I make time for our own learning because we want to grow, but we do this to model for our ...
State of The Union ~ Late Elementary and Middle Years
September 19, 2012
In the coming weeks I will be sharing our homeschool curriculum and resources for the late elementary and pre-high school years. You could call these pre-high school years junior high, middle school or transition to scholar - all would work. I don't know the best definition to use, so just ...
Sunday's Kitchen
September 12, 2012
Meals from the season. From the generosity of friend's farms and gardens. Remember the tomato greenhouse I told you about earlier this year? (I've mentioned it several times since then also.) I was given 60 lbs of organic greenhouse tomatoes a couple weeks ago. This was the week before we ...
Reading Horizons Winner and Reading Readiness
August 29, 2012
I know I said I might be MIA this week, turns out I'm not. I love this space and connecting with you through comments. So, there are still posts showing up but I'm spending a significant amount less time writing and online in general (taking a break from my blog ...
