This year has been a GREAT year! It is our 2nd year using The Good and the Beautiful and it has been our best choice in curriculum ever! My kids enjoy it…and I enjoy it! It takes no prep time and the stories are all beautiful and kind. I am kinda obsessed with Jenny Phillips […]
Hiatus: a break or interruption in the continuity of a work, series, action, etc. Does a mom ever really take a hiatus??? No, but I have taken one recently from blogging. I don’t know why I have taken such a long break….I love posting our adventures and my hobbies on this site….but there comes certain […]
So being homeschoolers we don’t have a class to have a party each holiday, we don’t have assemblies, we don’t have an award for perfect attendance….there are some fun school things that the kids do miss out on. THAT IS WHY it is important to make homeschooling FUN! Each holiday we take a day off […]
I used to dreaaaaaaad oral reports when I was younger. To stand in front of a classroom and give a report made my nerves on end! I would get a stomach ache and literally be sick about it!!! I still don’t love to talk in front of a group, but guess what….I am really really […]
We are members of 3 homeschool groups…have I said this before???…forgive me. Anywho…we get some curriculum through K-12….so we are invited to all of their field trips, our valley has a homeschool group and we are invited to those field trips, and then our co-op does field trips also. So there are always lots to […]
Bribing probably isn’t the best word to use…since it typically means to persuade someone illegally. But I am a homeschool mom of 3…I am trying to persuade them to WANT to get good grades 🙂 It isn’t bad…right?!? They are great students and we love to learn together. I love to teach them … and […]
I changed our curriculum a lot this year…because I’m the teacher…and when I see something not working, I can make changes! (It is so nice!) Our biggest change was starting with the co-op. This meant we no longer to needed to focus on a couple subjects (Spanish, art, science, geography)…and so we only focus on […]
We were finally able to start our commonwealth group (HVZA)! My kids were so excited for the first day to start. When we got there, we started with prayer as a group…then we split and dove right in to Spanish. It was such a great class! Then the girls did an IEW writing class, which […]
The commonwealth we joined is made up with only 10 families per group. So far there are 3 groups of 10 families. I am part of the Gimel group. It is set up according to the ways that they put Mormon pioneer families together so that no family would be forgotten and all families had […]
We are really focusing on doing a field trip every Friday. With our school schedule being only a 4 day a week schedule…sometimes it is hard, but we have a great home-school community that plans field trips on most Fridays. So we are able to join in when we can! A couple Fridays ago we […]