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Top of the World with Mother Goose Time
**This post contains affiliate links that support our farm, family, and homeschool.** This month’s theme with Mother Goose Time is all things Winter Wonderland. We’re exploring snow and snowflakes and...
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On ice at the Super 8
Our sweet friend Vicki gave us this cute little sign when we were getting ready to move. Thanks Vicki! On Sunday morning we walked into church without jackets. By midnight we were under a thick layer...
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We are a hockey family
I guess it’s fitting that we started our first hockey lessons the same week as the ice storm. Brrr. I may never be warm again. My sweet boy wants to be a hockey player. So we signed him up for an 8...
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Life documented
Winter is making one last hurrah tomorrow with temps down to 28 here. So, the tomato seedlings were brought in tonight and are snuggled up all cozy in the foyer; the baby chicks are a balmy 98 degrees...
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DIY Richard Scarry Community Map
When we moved here we got right to work looking for social outlets for the boys. We signed up for hockey and boy scouts and we’ve stayed pretty busy with them. The tricky part about signing up for...
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Hockey School
Pekka Rinne signing jerseys at Lil’ Preds Hockey School 2013 We’ve been non-stop with hockey since we moved to Nashville. Our boy got bit by the hockey bug during the 2013-1014 NHL season and we knew...
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Summer happenings
We finished up first grade! My sweet boy is moving on to second grade in a few weeks! He is too excited to take the summer off so we’re starting back to school on July 7th. I am so pumped that he’s so...
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Mother Goose Time – Getting Started
Many of you have asked which curriculums we’ll be using for the upcoming 2014-2015 school year. Our youngest is starting pre-k this year so I thought we’d start with his curriculum. We’ve homeschooled...
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Our journey with Sensory Processing Disorder
I’ve gone back and forth on whether I should ever write about Sensory Processing Disorder. It’s a large part of our lives but I’m always worried about where “the line” is with blogging and privacy and...
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Sabbath schooling
For 2014 we’re trying out a new method of scheduling our school year. The last couple of years I’ve struggled with homeschool burnout. I’m pretty sure teachers everywhere suffer from it. It’s that...
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A gentle reminder. It’s SPD.
The thing about Sensory Processing Disorder is that it can be a sneaky little thing. What often looks like frustrating, typical kid behavior can actually be a sign of the dysfunction happening in the...
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Mother Goose Time: A Closer Look
For those of you who come here to see pictures of the garden and farm animals you’ll just have to hang on with me through a few more homeschool posts this week. Life’s just been hockey, hockey,...
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Greathall Productions and Jim Weiss: Storytelling CDs
Over the summer we were lucky enough to receive a package of storytelling CD’s by Jim Weiss and Greathall Productions. I thought we might receive one of the cd’s to review but I was excited to find...
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Things you never knew you didn’t know about youth hockey
We’re coming up on our first full-length house hockey season so I thought I’d let you in on everything you never knew you didn’t know about youth hockey. Because I’m finding out that there’s a lot more...
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Growing and Changing
We’ve been growing and changing. The last year was a whirlwind of changes for our family. New job. New home in another state. It’s no surprise the blog has been through some changes as well. The site...
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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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