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Field Trips, Homeschooling

Homeschool Field Trips

Field trips are about 75% of the reasons I wanted to homeschool. Seriously. When I was student teaching, I got to teach South Carolina History 4 times per day. I always wished we could load up the kids every day and take them to the places we studied. (I would pay big bucks to beRead More

Homeschooling

Daily & Weekly Homeschool Schedules

It probably sounds silly, since we can make our own routines, but sticking to a homeschool schedule is HARD. It can be really easy to let unexpected events derail us into not completeing any work for the day, sleeping late, or getting ”behind”. While some families thrive in the randomness that homeschool allows, ours isRead More

Unit Studies

Building Unit Study

Our building unit study was a specific request from our then-five-year-old. I had no idea how we would do a whole unit study on it, but once I started planning and we started learning, I found it was one of my favorites (and theirs) all year. This unit study was completed when our kids wereRead More

Homeschooling

Morning Time with Littles: Grammar

We are learning grammar during morning time this year because it was an easy place to put it in the schedule. When planning for the grammar we’d learn this year, I used the Common Core standards for first grade to pull out the ideas and topics I wanted to cover. Currently, we are working onRead More

Homeschooling

Morning Time with Littles: Bible

In our homeschool, we begin our day with Morning Gathering. And we start that with Bible time. Currently, we do this over breakfast so that everyone is pretty stationary and focused. Our memory work this year is memorizing a Bible verse each week that goes along with the story we are reading. When I can’tRead More

Homeschooling

Morning Time with Littles

Have you ever taken one of those “which homeschooling style are you?” quizzes? Every time I have, I always wind up as “Charlotte Mason style.” Which is great, in theory. I DO love a lot of Charlotte Mason principles. But in practice, I found a lot of the ways Charlotte Mason style is done inRead More