Category: The Home School Zone

After a little over two weeks off for the holidays, we are officially back to school this week. We finished up school in mid-December after Honeybun showed competence with the entire first grade curriculum. This …

A this year comes to a close and I take the time to refelct on the past 12 months, I feel somewhat surprised to be able to smile. This year has definitely not been the …

Each day we start school with a journal entry.  We use our journal time as a free writing exercise.  I give the girls a topic to write about (except on Free For All Friday when …

Last week I had a genius idea: have Honeybun make a book!  I know, not that ingenious but one of the 1st grade Common Core standards for Language Arts entails “use a variety of digital …

This is the day that never ends, it just goes on and on my friends! By 7:30 this morning I had already: made coffee had breakfast checked my email, Facebook and posted to the blog …

On November 8th each year, National Parents as Teachers Day is recognized.  The program started in the 1970s as an effort to prepare children in Missouri for Kindergarten by helping parents provide support at home …

I’ve been wanting to do another Day in the Life post since starting homeschool.  I was waiting for a “normal” day but things kept coming up.  Then I realized there is no typical day in our homeschool …

One of the great things about homeschooling is getting to set our own schedule. We get to decide when we do work, when we get to play and when it’s ok to put off work …

We are now a full two months into our homeschooling adventure, and it truly has been an adventure!  From learning about dinosaurs while standing in their tracks in Denver to navigating the common core and …

Today is indeed a Traveling Tuesday as the kids and I will be heading home after 18 wonderful days in Colorado celebrating marriages and saying good-byes, spending countless hours with friends and family. One of …