Homeschooling

Several months ago, I heard an idea about having a daily ritual of a “closing board” where you close out the day with intention, togetherness, reflection, and gratitude.         View this post on Instagram       One of our favorite new practices this last year has been our closing board. For...Read More

Last year we started some new (to us), meaningful traditions for Easter.  One tradition that I wanted to expand and deepen this year was celebrating Passover. Although I have known The Exodus story for most of my life, I didn’t know very much about the Passover celebration before last year, and even then I barely...Read More

I mentioned in this post that I’ve been amazed at how the gospel is woven into all of the subjects -even math.  Math has been helping my boys, especially, to strengthen their connection with God and to seek and receive personal revelation. The math curriculum that we are using for Landon and Porter is Math Inspirations. ...Read More

I ran across a talk by Henry B. Eyring called Education for Real Life that I found to be really insightful and inspiring.  It goes along well with some things that I was talking about in my last post about weaving spiritual and secular learning together, so I’m going to dive into more of that...Read More

  The theme that I felt led to choose for our family and homeschool this year (and perhaps beyond) is I have learned for myself.       There are a couple of things in particular that led me to making this a focus for this year.  The first is this story from our family history where...Read More

I don’t remember the exact day, but I think it was about 2 months ago when an idea came to me one day.  I had learned from Ralphie about this interesting bit of information…    “Scientists have recently determined that it takes approximately 400 repetitions to create a new synapse in the brain… unless it...Read More