Dolphin Day

We had so much fun the morning we studied Scottish terriers after reading Angus Lost that M suggested we have lots more animals days.  We’ve had a horse day soon thereafter, and a few weeks ago, we had a dolphin day.
After breakfast, we watched several You Tube videos about dolphins including one where they play [...]

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Hanukkah Activities

Every year, we read several books and do some activities to learn about Hanukkah.  This year, we’re reading Toby Belfer Never Had A Christmas Tree, Mrs. Greenberg’s Messy Hanukkah, and I Have A Little Dreidel, all favorites we discovered last year.
Using this pattern from Enchanted Learning, we’re making paper dreidels so we can play for [...]

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A Hodgepodge of Cool Links

Homeschool Inspiration
A great take on the workbox system at Early Bird Homeschool
Creative word bank idea also at Early Bird Homeschool
Paint Chip reading game at Dirt Under My Nails
Thanksgiving Fun
(edited to add) Great list of resources at Wild Rose Reader
Turkeys and painting fun at Let’s Explore
How to Draw a Turkey at Art Projects for Kids
Lots of [...]

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Prehistory Study: List of Topics

From January-May, we’ll be concentrating on prehistory for our science and history studies. You’ll find the tentative booklist for our prehistory study here.
This is a list of topics we plan to cover in our prehistory study. Some of these we’ve already done a lot of reading on and others will be new areas of exploration [...]

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Advent Approacheth

I know I just posted my list of Thanksgiving books but Advent (the 24 days leading up to the celebration of Christmas) will be up on us very soon. No one should miss Karen Edmisten’s wonderful series for a no-panic Advent.  She has a host of wonderful suggestions to help families enjoy the season rather [...]

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Non-Fiction Monday: Usborne Encyclopedia of World History

I’d read many positive reviews of The Usborne Internet-Linked Encyclopedia of World History and I’d been looking forward to checking it out when we were ready to use it.  I requested it from the library last week, and I was pleasantly surprised to see what a large portion was devoted to prehistory since that’s what [...]

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A Few of Our Favorite Toys

As the holidays approach far more rapidly than I want to admit, toy catalogs are filling the mailbox and talk is turning to wishlists for Santa and the grandparents.  For those of you who’ve also begun pondering holiday gifts for kids, I thought I’d share some of our favorite (as in actually played with often) [...]

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Prehistory Study: Booklist

As I mentioned here, we’ll be embarking on a study of the prehistoric world after Christmas. I’m making our curriculum myself so I’ve started by putting together a book list.  I’m excited about all the cool titles I’ve written down to investigate and the ones I already know that we’ll love.  We’ve done a lot [...]

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Homeschooling: Taking the Plunge

When we decided what to do for M’s first grade year, we toyed with the idea of homeschooling full time, but ultimately chose for her to stay with the three day per week distance learning program she’d been in for kindergarten, giving us a balance of school and homeschool.  As the weeks have gone by, [...]

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Art Activity with Ghosts in the House

Happy Halloween Everyone!!!!

We’ve been reading Ghosts in the House by Kazuno Kohara several times every day for the last week.  We all love the quirky story and the fun black, orange, and white art. Inspired by a Ghosts in the House art project at Journey Into Unschooling, I came up with a simplified art project [...]

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