This is our 9th year homeschooling. Earlier this year I started to record a typical day as I had previous years. As I started to record my child’s day, the day took an unexpected turn and was anything but typical. So I ditched recording the day, deciding to try again…
We are about to start our 9th year homeschooling. Homeschooling has been an adventure that I wouldn’t trade for anything. Over 5 years ago I made a video of one of our school days. At the time my boys were in Kindergarten and 2nd grade and my little girl was…
While no day is typical, I kept track of one frigid day this winter when we were home all day. We have a general flow to our day, but the subjects we do each day are different. This school year I have a 7th grader, 5th grader, and 1st grader.…
Today I decided to keep track of what everyone was doing in 15 minute increments throughout our school day. Crazy, right? Everyone includes my 4th grader, my 2nd grader, my 3 year old, and myself. You can see the standard schedule we use here. We varied from it slightly today…
Today my camera accompanied me during our school day. I took pictures of my little ones as we did different subjects. Our school days may look a little different than the standard homeschool. We use a flexible time schedule so we don’t do x, y, and z subjects everyday. Today…
Late this afternoon about an hour before we finished school for the day I grabbed my camera and took a few pictures of what was going on in our homeschool. While every day is different this moment demonstrated how working with children in different grades can work. Sometimes my children…
I discovered the Mathematical Reasoning curriculum over a year ago. In Kindergarten I used Horizon math and my son hated it. By the end of his Kindergarten year I discovered that he learned best by thinking and analyzing. When I discovered that I went off on an internet search to…
I have a 16 month old toddler who is into everything these days. Homeschooling with a toddler isn’t too difficult. It just requires a little adapting. How do we do it? What do I do with my toddler? Today I decided to track my toddler’s activities and write down what…
