One more weekend to go before we start school! Packages have been arriving all week. The girls have been oohing and aahing over their new schoolbooks and workbooks. I’ve been busy making copies, tearing apart their new workbooks, and organizing the coming school year. It has been a blast! We don’t do well with a […]
Pocket sized
© 2007-2013 Chocolate on my Cranium, LLC all rights reserved
Homeschool Decisions 2008 Part II
Last week I wrote about our homeschooling dilemma with the options that we have before us. After much pondering and prayer we’ve finally decided what will be best for us and the kids this year. Hallelujah! There’s nothing like getting an answer after so much work. Thanks for all your encouragement, help, and suggestions. Every […]
Favorite Homeschool Books
Just like a bowl of your favorite cereal or the go-to outfit of jeans and a t-shirt that you seem to throw on day after day there are some homeschool books that I go to year after year. They are that good. Here are some of my favorites according to subject: Math:Abeka Arithmetic – My […]
Homeschool Decisions 2008
I’ve been going through my homeschool bookshelves – weeding out books, being reminded of ones I forgot I had, making lists of what I’d like to use. I’m having a bit of a dilemma. I can’t decide what to do this year! Normally after researching different curriculum, textbooks, and workbooks I buy what I think […]
Twilighters Get Your Fix
If you’re a Twilight fan I bet my boots your counting down ’til midnight anxiously waiting the release of Breaking Dawn. For those with nothing better to do here are some fun goodies to while away your time. 1. My mom’s bookstore is having an invitation only party for those who pre-ordered the book. You […]
Outdoor Hour #16 – Planting Sunflowers
I’ve been lax in posting about our Outdoor Hour activities (formerly known as Green Hour, read here for why it changed). Our busy season for farming is now upon us and we are just trying to survive by getting enough sleep! We skipped #14 and #15 because we still don’t have many flowers to press […]
A Purple Cow?
I love books! Old books, used books, tattered books, new books. I love reading books to my children. And I’m pretty sure they love being read to. I have fond memories of my parents reading books to me. Now they read to their grandchildren. Growing up one of our family’s favorite outing was going to […]
Nature Studies
Marrying a husband who makes his living from working the land has helped me appreciate Mother Nature from her vast weather cycles to the small creatures that live in the soil our grass grows in. There is so much to learn from studying any part of the natural world. How does a caterpillar change into […]
Green Hour Activity #13 – Flower Parts
The Green Hour Challenge this week was particularly fun: picking wildflowers, studying them up close, learning all their parts, cutting them open.We stopped at the top of our mountain pass to pick the only wildflowers blooming right now – Bush Sunflowers. They smell wonderful, sort of a mix between sagebrush and savory. The girls all […]
Green Hour Activity #12 – Focus on Garden Flowers
We had great success in planting a flower garden from seed last year. So we were excited to do last week’s Green Hour Challenge to plant some flowers from seed. While we were busy preparing the bed, tilling the soil, weeding, etc. this toad hopped onto Bon Bon’s leg and scared her half to death. […]
Green Hour Activity #11 – Year Long Tree Study
I’m a little behind in posting this. We completed this activity two weeks ago. For this Green Hour Challenge the girls each choose a tree to “adopt” for the year, observing its changes throughout each season. The three younger girls all chose the same tree. This is their “swinging” tree. Notice all the blue twine […]
Green Hour Activity #8 & #9 – Up Close and Personal
I know we skipped the Green Hour Activities #2 – #7. We’ve actually done some of them without even knowing it. Last week we combined Activities #8 and #9. Each girl marked off their own square foot of ground to observe. It’s amazing how much life there is down there amongst the grass, weeds, and […]
Creating a Family Library
When I wrote my Family Read-Alouds post I received several questions about our book list and how we got our family (my husband in particular) to participate. As with anything new there is usually some trepidation at first but over time persistence pays off. I can’t take credit for my husband liking the read-alouds though. […]
Family Read Alouds
One of the traditions in our family is our nightly gathering for our family read-alouds. The kids love to snuggle under quilts while lounging on couches or bean bags. It’s a quite time spent relaxing from a busy or trying day. There are just a few rules that have to be followed: 1. Everyone must […]