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Monthly Wrap-Up: July – Second grade curriculum
I’m starting a monthly wrap-up series as a way to measure progress and document what’s changed and what hasn’t so look for that next month. With all the reviews coming in I thought it would be good to...
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Managing the Mother Goose Time Leftovers
Mother Goose Time has been a wonderful addition to our homeschool this year. But one little problem I was having was the amount of leftover materials I had accumulated after only one month. Mother...
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Wizzy Gizmo (Schoolhouse Crew Review)
**This blog post may contain affiliate links that help support our family, farm, and homeschool.** This is the first year we’ve incorporated a Bible “curriculum” into our school day. And when I say...
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Essential Skills Advantage (Schoolhouse Review Crew)
We have two homeschoolers in the house this year. TWO! And one of them is in pre-k. And extremely eager! So pretty much, I’m pulled in a million directions when it comes to school right now. Oliver...
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What’s in the box? with Nancy Larson Science for Homeschool
**This post contains affiliate links which support our homeschool, family, and farm.** Oh man. I have been sitting on a little secret for an entire week now and I’ve been dying to tell you! I...
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We traded in our desk for a ball
Our second grader hasn’t been sitting in a regular chair for his school time in over a month. We replaced his regular chair with a ball chair from Therapy Shoppe, a specialty shop for school and...
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Star Wars Workbooks
**This post contains affiliate links that help support our family, farm, and homeschool.** If you follow me on Instagram you might’ve seen pictures from the day we received our Star Wars Workbooks...
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This Week at the Library
**This post contains affiliate links that help support our family, farm, and homeschool.** Chantel over at A Harvest of Blessing is doing a little series called, “What the Klassen’s Read” where she...
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Secular or Religious? Why I Chose Nancy Larson Science
**This post contains affiliate links that help support our family, farm, and homeschool.** We are a religious family but our choice to homeschool is not based on religious reasons. Because of that, our...
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Fix It! Grammar: The Nose Tree (TOS Review)
For this review, Institute for Excellence in Writing sent us Fix It! Grammar: The Nose Tree [Book 1] teacher manual and student book. We’ve used Institute for Excellence in Writing’s products before in...
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Developmental Science with Nancy Larson
**This post contains affiliate links that help support our farm, family, and homeschool.** We’ve wrapped up our first booklet with Nancy Larson Science 1. Booklet A was all about developmental science....
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Tornado Weather with Mother Goose Time
“Develop a teacher’s heart – This works for homeschoolers and traditional schoolers alike. This is the idea that you open up to the idea that nearly every situation in life can be a teachable moment....
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The search for friends
When we lived in Georgia I always wondered what the heck the big deal was with the “socializing” issue for homeschoolers. In Georgia we just didn’t have to worry about it because we were, at the very...
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Rain and Wind, Oh My! with Mother Goose Time
**This post contains affiliate links that help support our farm, family, and homeschool.** We started the week off by battling more rain, wind, and tornadoes. We’ve been totally immersed in weather...
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Ebb and flow
Last week was a slow week for us in school. Some weeks are just like that. I mentioned to Mr. Thistle the other night that one of the hard things about homeschool is deciding which task on the never...
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Organizing a month of Mother Goose Time
I wrote a little post a while back on how to organize all of the leftover parts of your monthly Mother Goose Time materials. This time I’m going to show you what I do to get ready for the month and how...
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Schooling in season
I’d normally start this post with “So we’ve been hard at work with Mother Goose Time….”, but that’s just not the case this month. Sure we started out strong. But it wasn’t long before we lost momentum....
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Observing Trees with Nancy Larson Science 1
**This post contains affiliate links that help support our farm, family, and homeschool.** Since it’s a dreary day here and much of the country has already seen snow on the ground, I thought we’d look...
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In the blink of an eye
This guy. He surprises me at every turn. Just when I think I have him figured out he throws me a curve ball. Yesterday, while I tore through the contents of a million christmas boxes from the garage,...
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Nancy Larson Science deals
**This post contains affiliate links that help support our farm, family, and homeschool.** You’ve all heard me rave about Nancy Larson Science and how much we love it. If you’ve been thinking about...
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