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Using E-mail in Homeschool
Math Reading Hiking Story Snake Project Some of my favorite clip art that I found...
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Homeschooling Kindergarten: Teaching the Solar System
There are a couple of subjects that I’ve been meaning to write about for over a year: how I taught my son about the solar system and the weather (which I’ll post soon). Though I do child-led learning,...
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Homeschooling Kindergarten: Teaching About the Weather
Like the solar system, the weather was one other subject I decided to introduce to my son to last year. All others (besides reading and math) were child-initiated. For this, I mostly relied on books...
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An update on our homeschool math, Life of Fred: Butterflies
Last year I wrote a comprehensive post on how I have been doing kindergarten math. I teach my six-year-old math in a variety of ways, but our main resource is Life of Fred. At that time, we had...
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Our Mid-Year Homeschool Update
If you’ve been reading my blog for awhile, you may remember my Back to Homeschool post in early September and my Back to Homeschool Update in early October. I thought I would follow those up with a...
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Homeschooling Reading and Language Arts for Kindergarten / 1st Grade
Last year I wrote a post titled How I’ve Taught Kindergarten Reading, and now I’m following that up with our reading progress this year. I have titled this page Kindergarten / First Grade because I...
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Project-based Homeschooling for Young Children: Interview with Lori Pickert,...
Lori Pickert was the owner and director of a small, Reggio-inspired school, and she has also traveled around the country as an educational consultant “helping teachers and administrators explore...
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Project-based Homeschooling for Young Children: Interview with Lori Pickert,...
This is Part 2 of my interview with Lori Pickert, author of Project-based Homeschooling: Mentoring Self-directed Learners. Please click here to start with Part 1. My questions have to do with getting...
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Project-based Homeschooling for Young Children: Interview with Lori Pickert,...
This is Part 3 of my interview with Lori Pickert, author of Project-based Homeschooling: Mentoring Self-directed Learners. Please click here to start with Part 1. Scroll below to leave your own...
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How to Make a Terrarium
Note: This column was published in the Barrow Journal on March 27, 2013. If you’re eager to plant some greenery, but you’re still waiting for the threat of frost to pass, you might enjoy making a...
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The Little Projects: Project-based Homeschooling
{A.K.A. I don’t plan any crafts in this house.} {In between projects} {Exploring mediums} I’ve written about what I’ve considered our “project-based homeschooling” in terms of long projects in which my...
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Raising Butterflies
Scroll down for a slideshow of our butterfly’s life cycle! Note: This column was published in the Barrow Journal on May 8, 2013. Last year we raised toads from tadpoles, and this year we’re raising...
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2nd Generation Butterflies
{Raising Painted Lady Butterflies} {Butterfly Life Cycle} Note: This column was published in the Barrow Journal on June 26, 2013. If you read my column regularly, you may recall that we raised Painted...
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Protected: Kindergarten Slideshow – Private Post
This post is password protected. You must visit the website and enter the password to continue reading. Filed under: Homeschooling, Kindergarten Tagged: completion celebration, end-of-year celebration,...
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The School of Ants
Note: This column was published in the Barrow Journal on Wednesday, July 24, 2013. This past school year, my son and I participated in the School of Ants project. Any adult, child or classroom can...
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Homeschooling Kindergarten for the Second Time
I’m so proud of my boy who just turned six-years-old. He is growing — in body, intellect and creativity — by leaps and bounds. He is becoming more independent, and he’s in a constant state of “play.”...
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Waiting for Brother
This little guy will sigh and ask, “How much more does he have to play?” Older brother used to have more time to play, and quite honestly, he still has lots of time to play, but that doesn’t make it...
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Kindergarten is the Easiest Grade to Homeschool
I just read my last post about Kindergarten: Homeschooling Kindergarten for the Second Time. I’m glad to see I’m still on track with what I wanted to accomplish with my six-year-old, though there have...
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Thank you, Wild Republic
Something really neat happened to the six-year-old this week. As I’ve mentioned before, he loves birds, and he has a huge collection of Audubon birds — those stuffed birds that make the real bird sound...
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Homeschooling: Summer Planning
Even after these last few years of homeschooling, I’m still not sure whether it’s better to take the summer off from doing lessons or homeschool all the way through. There was that summer that had a...
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