My family spent a gorgeous afternoon at Grayson Highlands State Park in Virginia. We have been a few times before and I think it is one of the most beautiful places to hike. The views are spectacular, because after a fairly steep climb straight up, the rest of the hike is along a relatively treeless ridge…
Last school year we used Elementary Greek Year 1 with my 4th grade son and 2nd grade daughter. I highly recommend this program for teaching Koine Greek to children. It is broken down into 5 daily lessons per week. I did the lessons orally with my kids. Our oral lesson was followed by a workbook exercise that went with the…
We recently purchased a brand-new resource to use in our homeschool this upcoming year. It is called Animals in the Bible and is published by Piedmont Educational Services. The set consists of a 40 minute DVD filled with interesting information and spiritual insights to be gained from the animals in the Bible. It is a…
I confess, I have always been scared of scrapbooking. I was scared of the cost, the clutter, the mess, and the overwhelming variety of things to choose. I have a hard time making decisions and the scrapbook aisles in Michael’s make me hyperventhilate. So, when I heard of digital scrapbooking, I was a little more…
Wow! I feel like summer is almost gone! We are starting our Tapestry of Grace co-op on August 12. By that time we’re supposed to have completed the first 2 weeks! Yikes. I spent most of my free time this week preparing for the semi-annual consignment sale I participate in. I priced a ton of…
We have been using Rod and Staff’s English Grammar textbooks for 3 years now and I really like them. They are thorough, well-organized, with good explanations. There are more exercises than I feel are really necessary for my children, but I have solved this by not assigning every question in each set. Doing this took about…
I finally figured out at least one way to post my schedules here. I converted my spreadsheets to images and then post just like pictures. This is our MWF schedule. Our Tuesday/Thursday schedule. This is our chore list. It tells us what to do when our schedule says morning chores, etc. I ran across a…
We’re home from our wonderful vacation to Atlantic Beach, NC. We had a fantastic time with fantastic weather. I don’t have time to post too much about it, but here are a few pictures of our trip. I noticed that there are no pictures of me except for one tiny one of me in the…
I have finally come up with a schedule that we can give a shot for school in the fall. There are still a few blank spaces but I think we’ll just have to try it to see where the problem areas are. I’m trying to figure out how to post it using google docs. If…
I have been enjoying our break. I’ve done more organizing of my computer files. I’ve been working on read aloud ideas. I have done quite a bit of cleaning and am working on redecorating our living room. Yesterday I painted some picture frames that were green, black. My living room has now been stripped of…