One of the easiest and most loved of our Christmas traditions is the Christmas book advent calendar. Now I know what you are thinking. Why would I share a Christmas tradition once December has started and there’s not […]
December is here! We have dropped our usual morning basket time plans in favor of an advent or Christmas-themed basket. You will see the same components that make up our usual basket time, I’ve just changed out the […]
Welcome to our combined schoolroom/playroom for preschool and the early years! Let me show you around. Josiah and Jessa are 4 and 2 this year. Most of our “school” is playing so the schoolroom is essentially a playroom […]
When my son was two he came home from a morning at Mother’s Day Out with a cute little red handprint apple. While I didn’t think he was ready to learn the alphabet yet, I did cherish that […]
We started up preschool a few weeks ago and we’re on our third letter-of-the-week. Here’s what our “calendar time” board looks like. As you can see we are focusing on letter H this week. Our board features: Letter […]
This is our second year to do basket time. Last year it was our favorite part of the day and I’m sure this year will be no different. We have already started back with an abbreviated basket time […]
I’ve been sharing a series of posts on planning a year of homeschool. You may want to catch up by reading: about my experience overfilling our schedule last year and what I learned how I created my vision […]
Last year I overfilled our days because I didn’t take the time to create a vision for our homeschool. You can read about that experience and what I learned here. I smack my head and roll my eyes […]
Last year I took preschool-at-home for a test drive. I didn’t do it full-time and all academics we did were gentle and laid back. This much I got right. Where I went wrong was overbooking our schedule. When […]
When explaining our daily rhythm from last year, I noted that part of our morning was devoted to basket time. Basket time was born out of listening to Pam Barnihill’s Podcast, Your Morning Basket. It is a special […]