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Fall Crafting
Posted in Journaling, Project Learning, Real Life Education, Seasonal on September 8, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Rocks and Minerals Lapbook and Unit Study – Part I
Posted in Journaling, Lapbooking, Learning Room, Planning, Project Learning, Real Life Education, Science, Weekly Wrap Up on September 1, 2011 | 8 Comments »
*This series will be a 2 post series. Check back next week for part two! I can’t even begin to tell you how excited I was to start this unit. I remember my rock collection as a girl. Our neighbor had a bed of river rock in their garden and I would spend hours digging [...]
Roommates
Posted in Country Living, Journaling, Learning Room, Project Learning, Real Life Education, Science, Seasonal, Unschooling on August 26, 2011 | 1 Comment »
Meet our new roommates…. Squirmy and Fred, our monarch caterpillars… and Dooky (don’t ask!), our salt marsh caterpillar. I was so excited to finally find some Monarch caterpillars. So looking forward to the exquisite jade green and gold chrysalis they make. By far my favorite caterpillar to keep and feed! Thank you, God, for the [...]
Camp Wrap Up
Posted in Country Living, Journaling, Learning Room, Project Learning, Real Life Education, Seasonal, Unschooling, Weekly Wrap Up on July 21, 2011 | 3 Comments »
Yep, I know…you are all very sad that these are the last of the 100′s of camp pictures posted! My turn at camp with Lilah Jane came. Our time together was sweet, short and long all at the same time. Two days without my baby and I was sore and needing to nurse ever so [...]
A Week of Camp
Posted in Country Living, Journaling, Learning Room, Project Learning, Real Life Education, Seasonal, Unschooling, Weekly Wrap Up on July 15, 2011 | 3 Comments »
My babies went to camp this week. It has been my first real week without them. Sure, they’ve spent the night at gram and pop’s house or their cousins. But one night is not a week! I was a nervous wreck. I tried properly preparing them last week with a training boot camp of learning [...]
How to File Paperwork if You Are Not a Planner {a.k.a. Unschooling}
Posted in Journaling, Learning Room, Orginization, Planning, Project Learning, Schedules, Unschooling, Weekly Wrap Up on July 8, 2011 | 7 Comments »
That time is upon us once again…. Yep, filing paper work with the state education board. Fun. Fun. This is my yearly quandary… One of the huge advantages of homeschooling is following a MUCH more relaxed schedule. For us that contains a fair amount of unschooling…or child-led interests and rabbit trails. These really can’t be planned [...]
A Boy’s Responsibility
Posted in Learning Room, Project Learning, Real Life Education, Unschooling, Weekly Wrap Up on June 10, 2011 | 3 Comments »
What can turn a boy into a man? Responsibility. How do you instill responsibility without being a naggy mom? Allow him his first pet that he buys with his own money. Meet Mike the hamster. And how to weave into our homschool week? A pet project ~ Check out two library books on hamsters. Read [...]
The Official Spring Break Handbook
Posted in Book Reviews, Journaling, Learning Room, Project Learning, Real Life Education, Seasonal, Unschooling, Weekly Wrap Up on April 16, 2011 | 5 Comments »
When I saw Mud Pies and Other Recipes online I fell in love and started having daydreams about what I would have done with a book like this when I was a little girl. Oh how my dolls and I would have played! So I knew it just had to be on my official homeschool [...]
The Learning Room – School Shenanigans
Posted in Journaling, Lapbooking, Learning Room, Living Books, Narrations, Project Learning, Real Life Education, Seasonal, Weekly Wrap Up on March 18, 2011 | 8 Comments »
Spring is upon us and it is bearing green. I will admit it is making me not want to work. I open the windows and smell the breeze, listen to the sound of the birds and it all makes me want to sit outside with a good book and a hot cup of coffee. And [...]
A Fun New Crafting Site & Free Resources
Posted in Project Learning, Real Life Education, Recycling, Simplicity on March 12, 2011 | 5 Comments »
My sister shared with me a wonderful link to this blog dedicated to making crafts out of toilet paper tubes. It is called tpcraft.com. How cute is that? Adding it to my resource page right now! The ultimate in upcycling! By the way, don’t forget to check out all the fun free resource links I’ve collected. Click [...]
The Learning Room ~ Musical Schooling
Posted in Journaling, Learning Room, Music, Project Learning, Real Life Education, Technology, Unschooling on February 25, 2011 | 4 Comments »
Weeks Febraury 14 – 25 We’ve been musical schooling this week. A term I made up to go along with our car schooling! It’s been a light two weeks on my end, with planning anyway. We had the heart holiday off and two playdates and beautiful spring weather and my new camera to play with. [...]
Taking a day off…
Posted in Journaling, Learning Room, Project Learning, Real Life Education, Unschooling on February 15, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
So check out all the fun things going on at the Hands-On Homeschooling Carnival today at Cultivated Lives! I am going to officially take the day off of school. It is 60 degrees out today, the sun is shining and my new Nikon d3100 is just begging me to take it for a spin! Happy(early) [...]
The Learning Room ~ More Project Work
Posted in Journaling, Learning Room, Penmanship, Project Learning, Real Life Education, Unschooling, Weekly Wrap Up on February 11, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
We have continued on with project work this week. I feel our biggest accomplishment was sticking to the generic schedule ~ doing school work from 10-12 each day no matter if chores were done or not and using later free time to pick up the slack on chores kids were too lazy to get done [...]
Guided Project Work
Posted in Copywork, Learning Room, Living Books, Living Math, Narrations, Potty Training, Project Learning, Real Life Education, Unschooling, Weekly Wrap Up on February 4, 2011 | 11 Comments »
January 31 – February 4 At the beginning of the week I mentioned that during my potty training time with Ivy I would have the two older kids working on guided project work. I was very excited about this concept and the kids were too. We’ve done project work in the past with trying to allow [...]
Unschooling, New Friends, and a Broken Camera
Posted in A Day in the Life of..., Home Atmosphere, Learning Room, Project Learning, Real Life Education, Unschooling on January 25, 2011 | 3 Comments »
I’m sobbing as I’m looking at my camera and trying to ~ over and over ~ press a button to make anything work at all. It’s fried. Kaput. I have no idea what happened to it. One day it worked beautifully and the next I tried to turn it on, heard a bzzzing sound and [...]
Woods, Winter, and the Ingall’s Girls
Posted in History, Journaling, Lapbooking, Learning Room, Project Learning, Real Life Education, Science, Weekly Wrap Up on December 24, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
December 13 – 24, 2010 I am just now getting a chance to sit down and write about our history and science days of last week. We officially started our Unit Study of Little House in the Big Woods. On our official “history” day we will be reading from the book, discussing, doing activities to [...]
Little House on the Prairie Lapbook Unit Study
Posted in Book Reviews, History, Lapbooking, Learning Room, Living Books, Planning, Project Learning, Real Life Education, Schedules on November 15, 2010 | 3 Comments »
Now that we are done with the Civil War era (will back post on books and links this winter when I have a bit more downtime at home – but notice how I finally updated the book bar on the side!) we will be moving on to the Pioneer era. And what better way to [...]
Play or Project Work?
Posted in Journaling, Learning Room, Project Learning, Real Life Education, Unschooling on July 20, 2010 | 9 Comments »
I’ve been thinking a lot about project work and unschooling and relaxed homeschooling…about my children learning…about killing that with too much of my “to do”…about retention and memory and what’s really important. Some of this is natural for the time of year…coming up on a new school year. How to proceed? More planning or less? [...]
New Friendly Faces
Posted in Learning Room, Project Learning, Real Life Education, Unschooling on May 22, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Just wanted to take a quick moment to let you all know of some wonderful blogs I’ve stumbled across the past few days (you know…a link then a link then a link kind of thing!). These women have beautiful sites, mostly about homeschooling and a few eclectic life ones that I think I – and [...]
The Simple Pleasures
Posted in From Scratch, Journaling, Keeping Home, Project Learning, Simplicity, Sustainable Living, Technology on May 17, 2010 | 2 Comments »
Well, hello there again family and friends! I started writing a post on how our experiment into the simple life went. After a few days of sitting on it and realizing how negative it sounded (still may post it), I decided to first come back with a pictorial spread of the simple pleasures we enjoyed without technology [...]
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