Homeschool

Homeschooling with an Infant

Mid-August we welcomed Felix into the world! Even five and a half months later, Felix is the joy of our home! The kids fight over who gets to hold him and there are always willing hands 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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Clearing the Reading Chasm

Teaching sequential grade levels has been a great eye opener for me. With this I am able to see growth and understand things I would never have learned by teaching the same grade level year after year. This is a great benefit to being a homeschool mom!  One phenomenon I find interesting is the reading

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Lock Box Escape Room #2

When my kids wake up to a lock box their excitement is tangible! I love to sit back to watch them use logic and team work to solve each puzzle. I love creating lock box experiences for my kids! Weekly or even monthly would be ideal! In reality I create a lock box only a

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