Homeschooling

One of our topics that we have been learning about this month is insects.  Today we had an insect themed Fika.  We ate butterflies (made from bananas and pretzels), snails (made from celery, cream cheese, apples, and green onions) and homemade honey oat granola bars (in honor of bees).   We listened to some insect themed...Read More

I just wanted to share these little gems from the past few weeks.   January 17, 2020 Roxanne: “I’m playing Moonlight Sonata on my guitar.”     February 12, 2020 Roxanne and I were playing with her dollhouse this morning. I had turned on the piano music box and the kitty doll was “playing” the...Read More

England Themed Fika today.  I have a lot of English heritage so it has been fun to learn more about England this month. We had some English Cucumber and Dill sandwiches, and some British Scones with Currents (served with clotted cream (that I made in the instant pot), and jam). Everything was pretty easy to...Read More

Our science topic for this month is rocks.  We’ve gone on a couple of hikes since the weather has been nice and the kids stuffed their pockets and backpacks with rocks to add to their rock collections.   We’ve been having fun putting our rock collections to good use. We’ve been using them to build...Read More

We have been learning a lot about the Pilgrims this month (again, with the Well-Educated Heart rotation). It has been so fun, especially since we have ancestors that came over on the Mayflower. On Friday last week, we spent the day re-enacting the Pilgrim time period. We had a mini feast of Johnnycakes, Stewed Pompion...Read More

At the risk of sounding like I’ve been living under a rock my whole life (which I’ve discovered I have… in this area at least), I wanted to share something in case there is someone else that hasn’t heard about this either. A few weeks ago, I heard about a movie called “The Pilgrim’s Progress.”...Read More