It’s getting to that part of summer – too hot to be outside during the day but not enough to do inside. Well here it’s like that, at least! We live in the desert and it’s been 108+ that past week. Insanely hot. But at least it’s a dry heat. I don’t do well with…
Swing In To Summer Learning: A Free 5 week summer learning program for kids from 2-10! Ahhh it’s here! It’s here!! I am so incredibly excited about this year’s summer learning program. Most years at this point I’m like “Seriously, are we done yet?” (These programs take months and months of planning and working! We…
I’ve spent way way way too much time trying to decide on curriculum for next year. Part of me just wants to get a box set and be done with it, but we really like All About Reading/All About Spelling. So I decided to do everything separate which meant like 80 different choices had to…
One day, shortly before Christmas, the hubs, Logi-Bear and I were shopping at Target. I don’t know know what happened, but when we got home Logi-Bear had a hexbug. We weren’t into Hexbugs before that. I kind of knew what they were but we just didn’t have them. Let’s just say, the boys LOVE the…
We love Star Wars and it is good for motivating a lot of learning around here. And since they are very active, activities that involve moving around are typically best. We love incorporating fun themes, like Star Wars, into our school day. Adding in Star Wars science is a great way to expand upon themes…
So Baloo recently started fractions, among other mathematical concepts. It seems like there’s just been an explosion of new concepts lately. Anyway, I immediately noticed there is a severe lack of colorful and fun fraction practice. You can only cut a pizza into so many fractions! So naturally I had to put something together. What’s…
Baloo is back in a Star War phase and has told me he would do extra multiplication work if it was Star Wars themed. Naturally, I jumped on that opportunity!! I knew a Star Wars Multiplication pack would get him invested in working on his multiplication skills! Multiplication isn’t necessarily that difficult but practice multiplication…
So Baloo loves Minecraft. We found out about a website called Minecraft Homeschool, and they have a lite program for kids 5-15 all about the 7 Ancient Wonders of the World. I didn’t even hesitate – we signed him right up. It was 2 weeks before the class started though, so I wanted to give…
November is all about being thankful, right? It’s the month we’ve dedicated to remembering everything we appreciate, all the people in our lives we love, and things we think we cannot live without (ahem, pumpkin spice lattes…) I think the first step to raising kids who are not full of the entitlement attitude that has…
Whoever said ‘Don’t play with your food’ didn’t know how much fun food is! We started off with giant marshmallows, mini marshmallows, sprinkles, toothpicks, water, and gel food marker things. To get the sprinkles to stick, we put a bit of water on the marshmallows. Then we sprinkled. And sprinkled, and sprinkled, and sprinkled! We…
Nick Sharatt is a new author to me and unfortunately our library only carries one of his books But it’s an amazing book! We loved The Foggy Foggy Forest! Royal and I had a great time guessing what would be on the next page. He was right a lot of the time, too! We…
Candy Corn. The one candy that almost no one likes! Yet, it’s widely popular this time of year. I have never really been a fan but the boys do love it. I mean, it’s basically sugar, a lot of cruddy stuff, and food coloring. But Baloo specifically requested candy corn school and I rarely turn down…