Just as my parenting has evolved in my home, so has my homeschooling. Each year I take stock of what has worked and what hasn’t and we change accordingly. We may decide to introduce journalling, or a planner, or maybe we will decide to stop workbooks all together. One idea that we recently started to do […]
When people think of homeschooling they think of a happy mom standing in front of the kitchen table, lecture style, teaching her gaggle of children arithmetics using workbooks. Her house is spotless, her children are well coiffed, and everyone looks happy. After looking at a few pinterest boards this myth is cemented. However, this is […]
My family and I are like bears. We are not a huge fan of the winter months. My husband often jokes about how he doesn’t understand why I continue to want to live in a place that is so cold most of the year. It’s true, winter and I are not friends. Honestly like the […]
In this digital age we moms take a ton of photos. So many that sometimes we find ourselves deleting apps just so that we can squeeze another couple pictures into the camera roll when we get the “Cannot Take A Photo” message on our iPhones. I am constantly uploading to my Instagram account as it […]
Recently I read an article by Mike Yoast Photography who said that this generation will be the one without any pictures. When I first read the title I scoffed. I have over one hundred pictures on my phone, and 3 different backup hard drives with thousands of family pictures stored on them. Not only that but […]
Did that title shock you? Are you surprised that I would say that academics are not the main priority in our homeschool? It is true, they are not. They are an important factor of course, but they are not our main priority. The main priority in our homeschool are the relationships between our children and their siblings, parents, family, and friends. You see, […]
When I first started to homeschool, 5 years ago, I had no idea what kind of lessons that I was going to teach, let alone how to plan them. Over the years I have used many different planners and systems to organize some of the activities that we do in our homeschool. There have been […]
Playing in the snow is so much fun! While I am not a huge fan of the long prairie winters, my children absolutely love it. They go snowboarding, ice skating, and spend hours outside making snowmen, building igloos, and having epic snowball fights. One of the things I love to do is to give them […]
As a mom of 4 kids under the age of 10 I have had my fair share of homeschooling with babies and toddlers underfoot. Recently I periscoped about how I keep my toddler and preschooler busy during the day when I am homeschooling the older two. Luckily we follow more of an eclectic unschooling approach […]
