As a homeschool mom I have LOVED filling in the gaps of my own education while teaching my children. But I wanted more. I wanted to know more and so I decided to renew my interest in my OWN learning and education. I want to know it all and study it all. Right. Now. Thankyouverymuch. So […] Read more…
Morning Time – Winter 2016
Disclaimer: This post contains affiliate and/or referral links at no additional cost to you. Thank you for your support! In December, I was really feeling like something needed to change. I wanted to go further on the bookish route, but knew I was missing something. Pam at ED Snapshots sent an email about her Your […] Read more…
Memoria Press Curriculum: Fall Term Thoughts for K & 2
So this year, I decided to try something new and use Memoria Press Curriculum as my spine for homeschooling my second grader and kindergartener. I’ve never really done an out of the box solution before (and really, I’m barely doing it now) so I didn’t know how it would go. I’m kind of a picky […] Read more…
Tea Time — a Variation on Circle Time for a Classical/Charlotte Mason Homeschool
So over the summer, we have been having a semi-regular tea time, usually mid-morning and/or mid-afternoon. After a hard day of play outside, they usually need a snack so we gather together with a snack and I read-aloud from various books for 10-15 minutes. Tea Time Reading We read from a large stack that contains […] Read more…
Memoria Press in a Box – First Impressions + First Day of School Photos
So. This year, I decided to go with a box curriculum for both girls which is something I’ve never done. I mean I’ve ordered one before, but never DONE it. This year, I plan to buy it and DO it. I decided to buy everything except math, because we really like CTC (and I have […] Read more…
The Story of the Bible – New from TAN Homeschool!
Disclaimer: I received a copy of this book in exchange for an honest review. In the spring, TAN Homeschool (an imprint of the Catholic publisher TAN/Neumann Press/St. Benedict Press/etc) contacted me about helping them launch TAN Homeschool. In addition to writing the occasional article for their new homeschool blog, they sent me several items from […] Read more…
Ancient Egypt {Schoolhouse Review Crew}
My oldest daughter LOVES history. She is a people person through and through and because history is the study of people and how they lived and what they did, she is all. over. it. Seriously. So all over it, that when we had the opportunity to review the (NEW!) Project Passport World History Study: Ancient Egypt from Home […] Read more…
The Homeschooling Life Online Planner You Didn’t Know You Needed {Schoolhouse Review Crew}
I am (was?) a fly-by homeschool planner. At the beginning of the year, I look at the curriculum I want to get through, figure out if I need to do it daily or once a week to get through it all and then do it. Usually there is more time than material and so I […] Read more…
Weekly Wrap Up – Rethinking it All & Shopping
Disclaimer: This post contains referral links. Thanks for your support of my shopping habit :). That has such an ominous title. It really hasn’t been THAT ominous. This has been a summer of big changes around the Steed house, though. I don’t normally talk much about it because who wants to listen to debbie downer […] Read more…
Home Art Studio {Review}
My oldest daughter is an artist. She has been given gifts. She’s not a prodigy or anything, but she enjoys everything about art. When Ms. Volin asked if we would like to review her Home Art Studio DVD’s, she was stoked! We watched the sample videos and she leapt right in on the project from […] Read more…