Homeschooling

Resources that I love and use the most in our homeschool:

Well-Educated Heart                  Belle Ame At Home

The Good and The Beautiful                 Math Inspirations

Homeschool Posts

Sankta Lucia 2021

We celebrated Sankta Lucia for the 4th year in a row yesterday.  We love this tradition!                            
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Anschaaung: Sense Impressions

I wrote up this post a couple months ago but forgot to publish it… so here you go.  🙂   A few weeks ago, we watched Mr. Smith Goes to Washington because we have been learning a lot about the founding of our nation and government.  I may have seen this movie as a kid, but...
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Favorite and Least Favorite Parts of Homeschooling

An old friend of mine from college reached out to me a few days ago because she is thinking about homeschooling and wanted to ask me some questions.  Among her list of questions were “What are your favorite parts about homeschooling?” and “What are your least favorite parts about homeschooling?” I took some time to...
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Pioneer Unit 2021

This month we have been studying the 1800s so we decided to do our pioneer unit in March instead of July.  I am very pregnant right now so this pioneer unit wasn’t anywhere close to the amount of effort that I have put into the past 3 years but I am happy that we at...
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Prayer Journaling

About a year and a half ago, I wrote a post about prayer journaling.  I thought I would do another post to give some updates and talk about how it’s going for us. I have been writing in my prayer journal periodically for the past 2 years.  Prayer journaling has changed my relationship (for good)...
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Revolutionary War Fika

We are working our way through American History and we spent the month of January learning about the Revolutionary War time period.  We decided to have a Revolutionary War themed Fika again, like last year. I was curious to see if we had any ancestors that served in the Revolutionary War and I discovered that...
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Canada Fika

One of the countries that we have been learning a little bit about this month is Canada.  Jershon served his mission in Alberta, Canada 15+ years ago so he put together a little Canada themed Fika for us.   We ate Pirogies (dipped in sour cream) and Poutine (french fries with gravy and cheese curds). Jershon also...
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Fika Friday: Anne of Green Gables

Last January, we read Anne of Green Gables and then watched the 1985 version of the movie.  We all loved both the book and the movie, but Roxanne especially.  She has been quite enamored with Anne of Green Gables for the past year.   So for Christmas, Santa brought her a dress with puffed sleeves and...
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Fika Friday: China

One of the countries that we are learning about this month is China.  So for Fika, we made homemade fortune cookies. :). The kids had fun making up fortunes to put inside the cookies. We also listened to traditional Chinese folk music and watched a couple of videos from Liziqi’s YouTube channel.  I highly recommend...
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