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Field Trips, Homeschooling, Outdoor Adventures, Unit Studies

Center for Birds of Prey Field Trip

To wrap up our Bird Unit Study, in September 2021, we took a very exciting field trip to The Center for Birds of Prey in Awendaw, South Carolina. This was a unique experience that my kids still talk about, over a year later. We bought our tickets in advance for the Friday tour experience. ItRead More

Homeschooling, Unit Studies

Our Homeschool Plans for 2023-2024

School’s over, we have had a fantastic end of year celebration and we are enjoying our month off. So let’s talk about next year’s homeschool plans. My brain is always, always planning. I start thinking about the next school year after we put away the Christmas decorations, so I have a lot of ideas forRead More

Homeschooling

Last Day of Homeschool Celebration

Let’s talk about the last day of homeschool before “summer vacation”! First, you should know that I consider us to be year-round homeschoolers. We take plenty of breaks throughout the school year, but we do take one solid month off every year in May. In South Carolina, we homeschool under Option 3, meaning that weRead More

Family, Outdoor Adventures

What we do for Homeschool Summer Break

Let’s talk about homeschool summer break. We consider ourselves “year round” homeschoolers, because we truly are always looking for opportunities to learn together. However, we do take the entire month of May “off” from official sit-down-school activities. Even though we are out of school, no one in our family (and especially not me) does wellRead More

Homeschooling, Unit Studies

What Worked in Our Homeschool 2022-2023

Well, we’ve finally done it! We finished our school year and had a fun celebration! Today I’m sharing what worked well for us and what we will be tweaking/adjusting for next year. If you want to read how we started the year, check out our curriculum and schedule posts here and then come back andRead More

Family, Homeschooling

Making a Homeschool Yearbook

If you went to “real” school, do you remember yearbook day? It was always so exciting to get to flip through and see if you were included in any pictures. Since the homeschool experience is a little different, I knew I wanted to celebrate the end of our year using pictures somehow. I decided toRead More