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…
Here we are, starting our second month of officially homeschooling and not surprisingly, a number of people have been asking how it is going. To be honest, this is a question I was worried about before we started. What if it wasn’t going well? I mean, I suspected we’d have off days, these are my…
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…
On the first day of our homeschool year my 3 year old surprised me by sitting down and asking what he was going to be learning. Up until that day he had not been interested in learning his letters or numbers, printing, coloring, drawing or any type of intentional learning so I was a little…
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…
