Oh, those summer days — filled with warm sunshine, family memories, and the sights and scents of the season. In this week’s vlog, get a peek into our Friday night family campouts, fun times at the local drive-in theater, one of my patriotic holiday shopping hauls, an outdoor chat with me and Ezrah, picking ...
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Creating A Seasonal Nature Table
"Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better." — Albert Einstein Encouraging words for today’s cold nature walk where we collected more goodies for our October Nature Table. If you’re wondering what a nature table is all about, let me tell you. It’s a simple monthly activity we do to ...
Nature Walks & Fern Studies
On today’s nature walk, we explored the forest floor. We found dirt, rocks, pine needles, various leaves, ferns, nuts, sticks, some mushrooms, and more. Since we’re studying ferns during Nature Study this month, we took some time to draw a fern in our nature journals while we were out. As soon as we got home, we ...
A Thanksgiving Holiday Unit Study for Homeschoolers
In my last post on homeschooling, I explained how we're spending part of our Winter Break doing some focused holiday unit studies with a bit of unschooling mixed into the mix. I talked about how I put a unit study together, and I shared our Halloween holiday unit study schedule as well. Today, I thought ...
A Halloween Holiday Unit Study for Homeschoolers
At this point in the year, we're usually knee-deep into the first term of our homeschool schedule, but this year, I decided to take a different approach and switch up our schedule to follow seasonal rhythms and changes. One way we're doing this during the winter months is by implementing holiday studies. For the past ...
A Change in Our Homeschool Schedule & Plans
You guys. I have a love-hate relationship with homeschooling. Don't get me wrong... I know it's the right choice for us, and it's something I definitely want to do with my kids. I've seen so much good come of it, I love watching them learn, and I like that I have control over the what and how of their learning. ...
