Harvest Curriculum – Week Four
As short as last week’s post was, this one is the polar opposite. It’s actually a compilation of three weeks: a week we planned on …
Fall Harvest Curriculum – Week Three
This week wasn’t very picture heavy at all. For some reason, I only took a few pictures so this post will be short! Our main subject this week …
Fall Harvest Curriculum – Week Two
Our main focus was learning about where milk comes from. We read The Milk Makers and Beatrice’s Goat for our main books of the week. Both …
Fall Harvest Curriculum – Week One
In addition to the math, art, and nature study we’ve already been doing, we began our language arts curriculum this week. I chose to go with …
The Beginning of Weekly Nature Walks
This week we focused on the five senses, beginning with collecting petals for a homemade perfume. The girls picked roses, borage, and calendula and …
Morning Basket and Meteor Showers
Last year we eased into our homeschooling subjects so day one wasn’t just a huge overwhelming mess. It worked out really well so this year we& …
April Recap
April started out with Easter festivities, including an egg hunt with cousins at their Great Grandparents’ house! They scored tons of money …
Here Comes the Sun – March Recap
March was a fun-filled month with holiday celebrations, a birthday, and lots of crafts! We kicked off the month by celebrating a Welsh Holiday, St. …
February in a Nutshell
From Valentine’s parties to learning to count by 5’s, 10’s, and 25’s using money, February was a busy month! We played a lot …
Winter Wonderland Week Four – The End of January
This week we had sun and warm enough days to be outside without coats, eating popsicles! It was a nice reprieve from all the dreary winter weather. …
Winter Wonderland Week Three – Bird Feeders
This week we delved deeper into what winter is and how different animals survive during colder months. The two books we focused on were Hibernation …
Winter Wonderland Week Two – More Snow
Before I talk about what we did during week two of our Winter Wonderland curriculum, I want to mention two books we loved that I forgot to mention …
Winter Wonderland Week One – Snow
I’m very thankful we already had a break built into the month of December. We ended up dealing with two illnesses and a week where my back was …
Harvest Unit Week Twelve – Thanksgiving
We started out this week by playing airplane, which gave me a chance to combine learning letters, numbers, manners, food serving, geography, and …
Harvest Unit Week Eleven – In November
Week eleven started out with me being sick, then we had a nice day midweek where we all felt great before the girls came down with the same cold as …