I love that homeschooling allows us a lot of flexibility. We took two days off because Storyteller was sick. I was excited to get back to our normal routine on the third day but the girls had something else in mind. They headed upstairs as I finished up my breakfast and cleaned up. By the time I ... Read More about Word of the Week…Flexibility
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Cool Season Seeds Lineup
I haven't had much luck with seeds since moving back to Las Vegas. The germination rates have been quite bad especially in the Earthboxes. I'm not sure though if the problem is specific to the Earthbox or if I just notice it more there. Last year, I bought seeds from a local nursery that I really ... Read More about Cool Season Seeds Lineup
Week 2 of Kindergarten
A lot of homeschoolers do school four days a week so that they can save a day for field trips, co-op classes or other activities. We're not planning on doing exactly that but we're flexible so that we can participate in a lot of extras. After all, this is kindergarten...there's not a lot of actual ... Read More about Week 2 of Kindergarten
First Week of Homeschooling
We just finished our first week of homeschooling. We hadn't planned on starting yet. It just sort of happened. Until recently, Storyteller*** wasn't at all excited about homeschooling. She had attended two play based preschools. The last one offered kindergarten but we opted to start our ... Read More about First Week of Homeschooling
Tobacco Hornworms
While I was watering yesterday I noticed a few small holes in the younger leaves of a pepper plant. I found this little guy hanging out on the underside. After a closer look I found another one on the pepper plants and two on my eggplant. They were all tiny so the damage was very minimal. I'm ... Read More about Tobacco Hornworms
Portable Garden? We’ll See.
We've spent the last year living in a rental house so I've been growing mostly in containers. The house has a large garden but it was in rough shape and I didn't want to put too much work into it since we weren't planning on being there long. For the two years prior to that we lived in an ... Read More about Portable Garden? We’ll See.
Ready, Set…
We now have all of our main materials for our first year of homeschooling. We will be using Sonlight's P 4/5, Horizons Math K, All About Reading 1 and Peterson Directed Handwriting. We also have other odds and ends that we hope to use throughout the year. Sonlight is a literature based ... Read More about Ready, Set…