We are currently on chapter 4 of The Weaver Curriculum, working on our memory books and adding to our time lines. DS decided on Roger Bacon and Sir Isaac Newton for his science report, and since he’s been typing it on the computer, he’s getting a bit of a computer/word processing lesson as well. This [...]

So here are the volcano photos I mentioned. We made the art clay recipe in the resource section of the Weaver Curriculum Volume 1. Inside, we propped a cleaned out smoothie bottle on top of a small tupperware bowl. Then we simply smooshed the art clay all around the containers to form the volcano. Once [...]

Whew! We’re three weeks into our homeschool year! It’s been great so far, but boy, am I tired. It’s amazing how “out of the swing of things” I got in just a few short months. It’s going to be a while yet before my planning and prep time become as streamlined as last school year! [...]

I think I may have mentioned once or twice before on this blog that last school year we started (and love) the ARTistic Pursuits curriculum for our art classes. Well, one of the lessons was “Artists Show Their Work,” so this past weekend, that’s just what we did!

Last week, we officially “closed up shop” downstairs in our classroom. We are only going to be “out of school” for the month of June, so there wasn’t too much to do, but we did have quite a bit of school work to be filed in the kids’ binders. Darling Daughter helped punch the holes [...]