Poetry Tea Time is something we’ve been doing for a few months now in our homeschool and I’ve had a few people ask about it. I first came across the idea of Poetry Tea Time on Instagram and through my rabbit trail found out that the idea started with Julie from Brave Writer. Of course…
The books on this list today are perfect for those kids that are ready to really start chapter books. I’m not talking about the leveled readers like Penny and Her Doll (which is a great book) where each “chapter” actually only has a couple of pages each with only a few lines of text, these books…
I totally blame it on the show Octonauts but we’ve been on a bit of an underwater kick around here lately. Each week Raeca picks a new animal or two to learn about in science and we’ve had a good stretch of sea creatures; pilot fish, jellyfish and the green sea turtle). The kids have…
I love geography and learning about the world and I have a strong desire to pass this interest down to my children. I want to go everywhere, see everything and experience it all. While this may not exactly be possible right now I am trying my best to teach them about different countries and cultures…
I’ve admitted before that I’m not good at reading novels out loud but we really enjoy them so, as a result, we do a lot of audio books in our house. We love listening to audio books on road trips, during lunch time and randomly throughout the day when we all need a little bit…
I enjoy the library and we use it to the max but there are some books a family should just own. When you own books you read them again and again and without even knowing it you begin to form a family culture around the books you read. Ephraim’s favorite book for the longest time…
