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DIY Bug Board

Posted on June 30, 2016 by Jamie H

How to make a bug board to turn your kids into backyard scientists. My kids are big fans of bugs. They definitely got that trait from me. I remember as a small child when people would ask me what I wanted to be when I grew up, and then they would be confused when I said I wanted to be an entomologist. I had no idea that they didn’t know what that meant! I grew up being fascinated by how many different bugs there were. I enjoyed collecting them and studying them, and I never really outgrew my fascination with

Why I Don’t Blog About Homeschooling

Posted on November 12, 2015 by Jamie H

If you’ve been here before, you may remember that we started homeschooling preschool the year before last. And then at the beginning of this last school year, I told you about how we were planning goals for our homeschooling year. So why didn’t I blog about homeschooling? The truth may shock you. Because the truth is that we didn’t do much that I could blog about. Last year was a tough one for me, and I felt tired. Drained. Exhausted. I know there are people with way worse times than me, but that doesn’t change the fact that I just

Time Telling Clock

Posted on May 6, 2015 by Jamie H

You may remember from my post on Homeschooling Goals that one of our goals this year for Miss Magoo is to learn to tell time. We have flashcards and workbooks that help her learn about telling time, but one thing I really wanted to make was a Time Telling Clock. I remember as a kid, there were some school classrooms that had clocks somewhat similar to this EasyRead Time Teacher Children’s Wall Clock, but I’m way too cheap to buy such a thing. So I decided to make my own, and the time telling clock was envisioned. I knew that

Apple Cutout Kids Craft

Posted on September 17, 2014 by Jamie H

My sister and I have been doing a homeschooling co-op together. Our kids are the same ages, so it seems ideal to partner up twice a month to do some fun crafts and activities. We decided that to help us plan what to do, we will work through the letters of the alphabet. So for the letter A, I decided to have the kids make an Apple Cutout Kids Craft. The kids had a great time with this craft. The prep work for me included cutting strips of scrapbook paper (this was a great way to get rid of some

Homeschooling Goals

Posted on September 11, 2014 by Jamie H

I learned last year when I homeschooled preschool for the first time, that I’m not very good at following a curriculum or specific method. So when it came to planning for Kindergarten for Miss Magoo and preschool for Little Man this year, I was stumped on how to plan for the year. As I thought about it, I finally came to the decision to plan specific homeschooling goals for the year. Although I don’t strictly follow a curriculum, I don’t want to wander aimlessly through the year, which is where the homeschooling goals come in. By knowing what I want

Homeschooling Preschool- Looking Back

Posted on August 6, 2014 by Jamie H

I know I’ve been awful about writing posts updating on our homeschooling preschool experience! Honestly, I haven’t been really sure what to write about. I jumped into our first year of homeschooling with high expectations and plenty of preparation. You can read about it in these posts where I made a plan, organized our space, figured out what supplies we needed, and finally got started. Planning was so helpful, but as the year progressed, I realized that my style of homeschooling preschool was far different from what I thought it would be. See, the only friends I have who have

Homemade Snow

Posted on July 16, 2014 by Jamie H

We love the summer, but the kids have been really missing doing crafts and science experiments like we do during the winter. We spend so much time outside, going places, and enjoying the sunshine, that we don’t spend too much time doing school work. I know everyone does homeschooling differently, this is just the way we are currently doing it with our 4 and 3 year old. So my kids were so excited when I told them we were going to do a science experiment the other night, when we made homemade snow from the blog Growing a Jeweled Rose.

My School Year Printable

Posted on May 28, 2014 by Lucy

School is almost over!! Maybe your lucky and yours is already over but we have today and tomorrow and then we are done. School was a little different for my kids this year as we moved in the middle of the year and instead of putting them into another school with so little of the year left, we decided to home school them. It’s been quite the adventure but still really fun. I wanted to make a “My School Year” printable for them to record their year. Also I thought it would be fun to save these every year

Homeschooling: Old Town Site & Fall Leaves Field Trips

Posted on October 14, 2013 by Jamie H

One of the reasons we decided to homeschool is because we love that we can do school differently. Learning doesn’t have to consist simply of desk work, like in a traditional education. Since we started homeschooling, we’ve done our fair share of desk work, but also done some fun “field trips.” For one of our field trips, we visited an old town site that is usually under a reservoir, but due to very low water we were able to walk around on the old sidewalks, climb on foundations, and even look inside an old grain silo. It is an interesting

Homeschooling Preschool: Getting Started

Posted on September 23, 2013 by Jamie H

Before Starting: I’m a planner. Sometimes that’s a good thing, but sometimes I need to learn to not get so caught up in the planning. I’ve spent the summer trying to plan for homeschooling preschool this fall. And while planning is a good thing, I think I was trying to over-analyze it. So here’s what I’ve come up with. We will start homeschooling preschool using this book: We’ll use Teach Your Child to Read in 100 Easy Lessons every day for the suggested 15-20 minutes. They suggest teaching a lesson every day because the concepts are so new