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 love Ezra Jack Keats’ books! Introduced The Snowy Day to my 1st grader to learn more about winter and snowflakes. Sadly, we have no snow yet…and probably wont get much, if any, this year. But my kids love snow. The Snowy Day Unit Study for MERLD Kids By the end of the two weeks…
It feels weird writing this post about the next school year when we’re not yet done with this school year. Yet, on the other hand, I already have a rough annual and monthly plan laid out for already for the next school year in my attempt at taking a break from working on, or even…
I get it that this post is really late. Really, really late. Considering that we spent 2 months visiting family in the States…. Considering that it had been over a year since I’d seen my parents….. 4 Years since I’d seen my brother and his family….. Considering that my sister visited us while we were…
One of the hardest things to balance as a mom of two MERLD children is knowing when to pull back and when to push. Here is what I mean: Sometimes we need to give the brain a chance to sort through what our MERLD children have been learning and let all the pieces fall in…
When I began homeschooling both of my children, there were two things I knew I wanted to make up the central hub of our homeschool: Reading Notebooking In many ways, reading and notebooking intersect for us; because we do a lot of reading together for various subjects and I use notebooking most times when we…
