I love educational vacations! I wish I knew a good word for them. Veducations? Vay-keducations? Anyway, we’re having one right now, and it feels so good to be able to hatch two birds from one egg. (My bird loving kids don’t like it when I say “kill two birds with one stone”). We are relaxing […]
Year-Round School
June 3, 2010 by ·
The middle boy in the blue coat is my husband; the boy in red on the left is his twin brother. One benefit to homeschooling is that we do not need to be bound by a traditional school schedule. Our family has been starting school in July for a few years now so that we […]
Bunker Hill Chess
May 15, 2010 by ·
The boys have enjoyed many games of Bunker Hill Chess this spring. They enjoy pitting the Americans against the British and fighting it out. You can almost hear the cannons booming!
Homeschooling with Heart interview
May 7, 2010 by ·
You can find the archives for my Homeschooling with Heart interview here.
Safety on the Internet
April 14, 2010 by ·
Our family uses the internet a lot. We rely on it for our home-based business, for our oldest son’s online classes, for homework and educational websites, and for games. Almost every member of our family uses the internet daily. Although our computers are in a safe, public place, I began to worry last year about […]
Chincoteague and Assateague Islands, Virginia
April 1, 2010 by ·
During the time we were preparing for our trip to Colonial Williamsburg, Jamestown and Yorktown, we were also reading the book Misty of Chincoteague by Marguerite Henry. Misty of Chincoteague, 60th Anniversary Edition Misty is about a Chincoteague boy who participates in the annual wild pony roundup on Assateague. The wild ponies can still be […]
Homeschool Days at Yorktown, Virginia
March 31, 2010 by ·
Our day at Yorktown was slightly miserable because it had snowed in the night and, being Georgians, we didn’t have any boots. Nevertheless, we enjoyed Yorktown so much that our family went back for an extra day at the end of the week so that we could see things we had missed the first day. […]
Homeschool Days in Jamestown Virginia
March 20, 2010 by ·
We went to Virginia for Williamsburg homeschool days. Of course we couldn’t miss Jamestown or Yorktown while we were there. All three of these historic locations are within 10 to 30 minutes drive of one another. The Jamestown and Yorktown Foundation held their homeschool days during the same time frame as Colonial Williamsburg, making the […]
Homeschool Days at Colonial Williamsburg
March 15, 2010 by ·
We just returned from a wonderfully educational week at Colonial Williamsburg, Jamestown and Yorktown. This was one of the best field trips we’ve ever taken, and I hope you’ll consider going if it is ever within the realm of possibility. It was well worth the 10+ hour drive, and added a great deal to our […]
Spelling: The Value of the Whiteboard
March 11, 2010 by ·
My childrens’ attitudes toward spelling have dramatically improved since we began using whiteboards instead of writing all their spelling words on paper. When they were learning to write we used white boards all the time, but once they learned how to write I transitioned them completely to paper. Spelling became very tedious for them, however, […]
