Today was the perfect day to pull out our new Olympic Art Pastel lesson book on the kindle fire. It was overcast (rare for Arizona) and just enough nip in the air to make these desert dwellers feel in the mood for the upcoming winter Olympics. We’ve been using A Simple Start in Chalk Pastels this […]
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Read Through The Bible as a Family {Printable}
There are a few things that I’ve felt God nudging me towards with greater urgency in recent years. One of those is the absolute importance of the Word of God in our life. It has the ability to teach, to encourage, to correct, to build our faith, and draw us near to the Lord. As […]
Teaching Typing Skills – Quickly and Efficiently {VLOG}
Tap, tap, tap… “YESSSSSSSSSSSS!” I hear my son shout. He has just received a promotion. We are in our second month of exploring Keyboard Classroom and we both couldn’t be more pleased. Finally, after searching off and on for a while, we’ve found a typing program that we both like. Our time is just too […]
Making Math Mission Possible today…
This morning was fraught with tears as we continued to pick up dropped studies from last week. We stripped down to just a few things last week as we buckled down to pull everything together for our state’s homeschool Mid-Year Refresher and Leadership Conference that Rich and I organized. Our theme for the Leadership Conference was […]
Why I haven’t been writing much…
It has been in insanely busy month. We’ve all had them, right? Well, this month has been one of the busiest in a long time. We traveled so much last semester, that I found it hard to get into a groove with our learning routine. Just as we’d hit our stride, we’d head out to […]
Books and Your Budget: Deciding when to buy or borrow…
Books, books, books. Oh how I love reading great books. When I think about reading to my kids I can’t help but think about all of the benefits. In fact, I recently read and pinned an excellent post on why it’s important to still read aloud to your teens from Susan at Homeschooling Hearts and […]