Homeschool

World Exploration

During the 2024-2025 school year, “visiting” one country a week was our goal. We visited a total of 28 countries. Our learning activities varied from country to country. Sometimes we learned a few words in the language, created and tasted an iconic food, watched videos about the culture, listened to cultural music, and/or completed art

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“Real School” 

On a cold winter walk around the block, Tony relayed the details of a conversation he witnessed between our daughter and her friend from church… From this conversation, I began to ponder deeply ‘what is education?’ I didn’t say anything to Zaylee… perhaps it wasn’t a big deal.  However, the following morning Zaylee asked, “Mom

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Homeschooling with an Infant

Mid-August we welcomed Felix into the world! Here, five and a half months later, Felix is still the joy of our home! The kids fight over who gets to hold him. Willing hands are always there to hold the baby when needed.  Two weeks and two days after Felix was born we started the 2024-2025

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The Last Stretch

We are finally there. The last stretch of the 2023-2024 school year! We have a handful of states left to study, a couple lessons left in the books, and a few more weeks to practice for the end of year piano recital. With the melting snow comes the promise of warm weather. These long mountain

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Massachusetts

Touring America in a School Year, we are making our way through the United States visiting each state by region. This week we find ourselves in Massachusetts. (I tend to only give updates when I feel inspired to write. Lucky for all of you… my AWESOME Pinterest fail has inspired me to write.) Life is

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Learning with Music

Memorization is almost a lost art. I would love to get back to the way they used to memorize back in our grandparent’s day. At our house we try to memorize scriptures, poetry, music, geography… the list goes on. As I look back over life I realize that when a song is used to memorize

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