We have completed, well almost, week 3 of TOG Year 1. Rather than focus on Egyptian gods, we focused on the 10 plagues and passover. I assigned both of my bigger kids to make a booklet about the 10 plagues. My daughter chose to make a fan book. It’s a little difficult to see, but …
I am an organization junkie. (Is that an oxymoron?) Anyway, I do love organizing around the house, and I love to make sure that my days, weeks, and months are planned out ahead of time. That’s why I am so excited about the new Schoolhouse Planner from The Old Schoolhouse magazine. It is an amazing collection …
Yesterday we had our first Tapestry of Grace (TOG) co-op meeting. We went over weeks 1 and 2 of Year 1 Unit 1 which is Egypt. The day went extremely well considering all of us are new to TOG and co-ops of this kind. We started off with salt dough maps of either Egypt or …
My family spent a gorgeous afternoon at Grayson Highlands State Park in Virginia. We have been a few times before and I think it is one of the most beautiful places to hike. The views are spectacular, because after a fairly steep climb straight up, the rest of the hike is along a relatively treeless ridge …
Last school year we used Elementary Greek Year 1 with my 4th grade son and 2nd grade daughter. I highly recommend this program for teaching Koine Greek to children. It is broken down into 5 daily lessons per week. I did the lessons orally with my kids. Our oral lesson was followed by a workbook exercise that went with the …
We recently purchased a brand-new resource to use in our homeschool this upcoming year. It is called Animals in the Bible and is published by Piedmont Educational Services. The set consists of a 40 minute DVD filled with interesting information and spiritual insights to be gained from the animals in the Bible. It is a …
I confess, I have always been scared of scrapbooking. I was scared of the cost, the clutter, the mess, and the overwhelming variety of things to choose. I have a hard time making decisions and the scrapbook aisles in Michael’s make me hyperventhilate. So, when I heard of digital scrapbooking, I was a little more …
We have been using Rod and Staff’s English Grammar textbooks for 3 years now and I really like them. They are thorough, well-organized, with good explanations. There are more exercises than I feel are really necessary for my children, but I have solved this by not assigning every question in each set. Doing this took about …
I finally figured out at least one way to post my schedules here. I converted my spreadsheets to images and then post just like pictures. This is our MWF schedule. Our Tuesday/Thursday schedule. This is our chore list. It tells us what to do when our schedule says morning chores, etc. I ran across a …
We’re home from our wonderful vacation to Atlantic Beach, NC. We had a fantastic time with fantastic weather. I don’t have time to post too much about it, but here are a few pictures of our trip. I noticed that there are no pictures of me except for one tiny one of me in the …
