Homeschooling
Summer Road Trip 2015: Day 1
We started a day late. This is vacation. We begin when we begin! And so we are on the road! Our road trip custom is to get out of California as quickly as possible, so we cannonball it our first day, through the pale desert, past our favorite dusty, bare mountains, up into the high […]
Amazing vegan strawberry ice cream
It is in the 90*s in March, and we are putting sod down in the back yard (because that is what responsible people do in the middle of an extreme drought), so we need something nourishing and refreshing, yet fun, to help us out. So I whipped up some ice cream quick, and it was […]
Trip 2014 Day 2
This morning we drove and drove and drove from Benson, AZ, to Gila National Forrest, NM. The kids had breakfast on a grocery store curb like the classy kids they are, and Kiki found some partially petrified pine sap. That kid finds great things wherever she goes! It is still really hot, but as we […]
The terror of choosing the “right” books for the job, and how I helped my kids love math once again
Until I began schooling my own kids, I thought I hated math. I also thought I was not very good at it. I am unsure why I believed this about myself, but I did. I figured I could get my kids through their first few years of math and then I would do video courses […]
Rainy days are perfect days to make something fun!
With the drought going strong, this rainy weekend has been a blast and a blessing. But what to do with 4 kids who are so used to playing outside every single day? Make something everyone can help with! I’ve been wanting to make something for Atticus for a while, now. When you are 5th in […]
On how a bouncie ball saved my life, and why I sympathize with Monty Burns
I am a committed miser. Well, not in every way, but I am committed to exploring as many ways to become a miser as I possibly can, no matter how much it costs me to get there! So my latest engineering project asks this question: what is the cheapest, most efficient way to temporarily attach […]
So, we are taking a summer road trip…Part 1
I love road trips. Our family took our first when I was about 2 years old, and I still remember the drive, where we went, who we saw, what I got in trouble for…but I mostly remember the utter thrill of being on the road. We took another road trip when I was 7, and […]
So many questions these days
I have a secret crush on new homeschool curriculum. Okay, it’s not such a secret. I think every teacher, whether a home educator or not, gets a passionate thrill when the new books show up in the mail. It’s crack to us. I’ve had so many people ask us what we use and why, and […]
The Fruit of the Spirit week Three: Peace
This week’s study will focus on peace. Day One: 1. So call me a geek, but this week I found a pretty fun kid song, and we sang it rather than just reciting Galatians 5:22-23. Here is the link to it: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8j2PUWQa7fs&feature=related. Remember that you should not expect your little ones to know the entire verse yet. […]
Fruit of the Spirit Week Two: JOY
Week Two will focus on Joy. Day One: 1. Say the verse Galatians 5:22-23 out loud to the family. Everyone who knows the verse can say it with you, or say the parts they know. By now, the kids should be able to say much of it with you just from hearing it repeated over and […]
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