Homeschooling

Our Ideal Homeschool Day

February 2, 2012

I’ve wanted to give you a glimpse of what our homeschool days look like for a long time. It feels like this year has taken a long time to come together in a cohesive way. I knew this year would be a challenge with EA & MC, my first graders (I have two of them) [...]

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Apple Picking 2011

October 27, 2011

Going to the apple farm and picking apples has become one of my favorite fall traditions. This year we went to Carter Mountain Orchard with a group of homeschooling friends. My husband graciously offered to stay home with Jenny so the big kids and I could enjoy this time together. It rained our entire way [...]

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Sonlight Read Alouds

October 25, 2011

I’ve been extremely pleased with our homeschool curriculum choices this year…except for one thing. I decided against ordering a Sonlight Core this year. I went with Story of the World for our history and Bible Truths 1 from Bob Jones for our Bible curriculum. Also, I decided to use many of the Peace Hill Press [...]

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Science Project – Hanging Balloon Planets

September 21, 2011

We are studying Astronomy in Science this year with Apologia’s Exploring Creation with Astronomy, which is a part of the Young Explorer Series. The first weeks were spent learning the basics of what astronomy is and why we are studying it. We learned a lot about the stars in and planets in our solar system [...]

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Peanut Butter Oatmeal Chocolate Chip Cookies

September 15, 2011

Our Bible lesson yesterday called for the use of two cookies…one large and one small. We’ve been studying the story of Abram and Lot and how Abraham unselfishly gave Lot the first choice of land. In an application lesson on being unselfish, the plan was to ask my girls which of the two cookies (large [...]

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Homeschool Field Trip to the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts

September 14, 2011

I chose to Story of the World volume 1 (Ancient Times) for our history curriculum this year. We’ve spent the last couple of weeks studying the ancient Egyptians. After finishing our study of mummies, we went on our first homeschool field trip of the year to the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts. There we were [...]

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