One thing my kids love most is when we study the origins of holidays. Usually we take one week each holiday month and study the holiday. And one thing we most often discover is that the way we celebrate holidays doesn’t have to do with the actual event or person behind the holiday. Such is…
I’ll confess, we never used to do anything for Valentine’s Day in my home. When my husband and I were dating, we purposely didn’t put any emphasis on Valentine’s Day, because we felt that our love for one another should be expressed all year long – not just on one day. And then I gave…
As summer looms ahead, it is very easy to lose joy in your homeschool. The temptation to just “hold on to the end” causes us to lose sight of two important tools we need to maintain joy to the very last day. If you’ve lost joy in your homeschool, or if it is waning as…
Have you lost joy in your homeschool? Maybe you haven’t lost it, you’ve just noticed that it’s diminished considerably and you need to get back to that joy you had when you started. It felt like a constant fight to get my kids to do their school work – almost every single day. I…
I grew up reading the book The Snowy Day, by Ezra Jack Keates. I went on to read this book countless times to my daycare kids, and now I’m reading it to my own kids. There is something extra-special about his books. All of them! When I introduced my son to The Snowy Day for…
