It’s May, and our homeschool year is coming to an end….or is it? Our family has decided to keep working on reading and math this summer. School doesn’t take up that much of our day (about 2 hours) and the boys have plenty of time to play outside! They help us with farm chores, and…
So we have been homeschooling my Kindergartener for about 6 months now and things are going really, really well. I want to talk about our routine really quickly. First thing in the morning, we eat breakfast while we have some morning “table time”. This is a tradition in homeschools the world over where almost anything…
For those of you living under a rock in Mount Airy, we’ve been hit recently by a tornado, and while everyone in town has been mourning the closing of the TJMax due to roof damage and flooding, we’ve been over here dealing with our own tiny crisis. On a farm with livestock, there’s not much…
Hey all you wonderful people! I’m back to talk homeschool curriculum! I have had many chats with other homeschoolers in our area, visited a homeschool curriculum fair, and done TONS and TONS of research online. And here are my choices. Because I am new to this, and not super confident as a teacher yet, I…
We are entering a new season in our house. The season of schooling. Hard choices abound. For most people there are 3 main options. Send your child to public schools, private schools, and homeschooling. They all have pros and cons. We can’t afford private school, even if I work more than I do now, and…