The boys have been plowing through their school work. They’re amazing little sponges. I’m honored to be their teacher!
Andy just turned 7 last week. He’s now learning cursive (gasp!) and today he started multiplication (WHAT?!) It’s almost hard to keep up with how fast they’re growing.
To help them remember who’s who in Bible class, I [...]

I’ve explained before that we’re Food Network nerds. We love watching culinary battles and cuisine creations. Sometimes, I even attempt the recipes. Sometimes they work. I digress.
We’re big fans of Alton Brown’s, too. If you don’t know who he is, I can best describe him as a walking food encyclopedia. The man oozes information with [...]

We’re starting school here this morning. I know, I know. It’s JULY.
Yet, we’re starting. Andy’s entering 2nd grade, and Brady’s starting 1st. We see many advantages to doing school year-round, but we do like to give the kids a break that’s a bit longer in the summer. So, we take off for T-ball season. [...]

To all my fellow homeschooling parents out there in bloggy-land, here’s a question for you:
How long do you keep used homeschool materials/curricula after you’ve used it? I mean, how long do you need to keep it as “proof” after it’s been completed? Any ideas?
Thanks!

We finished our first year of homeschooling yesterday!
Actually, we started in September, and just finished TWO YEARS worth of curriculum. Crazy, huh? Andy started last fall in Kindergarten, and Brady began doing pre-school stuff. Yesterday, Andy completed first grade and Brady finished Kindergarten! What’s more is that they both got straight A’s!
We headed off to [...]

We’re “experiencing blizzard-like conditions” here in Chicagoland.
The good news is that the weather’s too bad for Nate and his students to fly, so he’s home for more than 20 minutes a day. (The bad news is that he doesn’t get paid when he doesn’t fly.) We like him around.
The kids have been dying [...]

Isn’t everyone sort of in recovery mode? We sure are.
I desperately want to remove the enormous tree from our living room, but the box we store it in is too large for me to lug up from the basement alone and Nate’s flying again today. I’m trying to find homes for all the kids’ new [...]

As part of their school, my boys listen to me read a Bible story, they answer questions about it, then they color a corresponding coloring sheet. They really enjoy this.
Because of their unique style ideas, I enjoy watching them color, too. Check this out (click to enlarge):

Brady decided that Gideon, too, should sport a coat [...]

While doing school today, Andy was working on a sequence worksheet. It sort of had an agriculture theme. Apples go from the tree, to the store, to your house and into a pie… that sort of thing.
One row showed eggs. “Andy, where do the eggs come from?*” I asked.
While he was pointing at the drawing [...]

Awhile back, I wrote about my endless quest to name our newly established homeschool. It’s not required in our state to name our school, but I’m just strange like that.
The graphic artist in me wants a logo for everything… and what’s a school logo without a mascot? Had to have both!
I really longed for the [...]