We are so excited to be homeschooling all four kiddos this year. Wondering what that will be like? We are too! Stay tuned for updates on our daily life, big adventures and a ton of great learning.
Homeschooling in the Hilltowns
Tuesday, September 3, 2019
Monday, October 29, 2018
Breathing life into math and learning
Today we began hearing a series of stories about the Gnome King, Equal, and four of his Gnomes: Plus, Minus, Times And Divide. Matthew is really excited by the stories and it’s a beautiful way to bring word problems to life.
We made our own gnomes and he has been waiting anxiously to hear their stories.
Tuesday, September 25, 2018
Our Morning Walks
One of the anchors in our homeschool day is our morning walk. This time is so important for getting everyone off to a good start.
Mornings outside are also a wonderful opportunity to make observations as the seasons change. Matthew mapped out a path, which takes us past the same tree every day. We are watching anxiously as the maple’s leaves slowly give way to their autumn colors.
On one of our morning walks, we were lucky enough to find an owl pellet! This was SO exciting for Matthew, as we had just been to presentation on “birds of prey,” the week before. When we came inside, he got straight to work dissecting the pellet and sorting the bones. We even found a website with a virtual dissection of an owl pellet that allowed us to clearly identify the bones we were looking at. What a great way to further explore what we had learned.
Our hands, hearts and minds are full, and for that I’m grateful.
Autumn is upon us.
As Summer slowly takes its leave, I can feel Autumn reminding us to draw upon our own strength in spirit as the days grow cold and short. This time of year, I welcome the crisp mornings with excitement. It’s not yet the cold dark of winter, and after seemingly endless adventures, it’s nice to slow down and shift focus to our family.
Having one at home (with his baby sister), and two in public school, finding the balance we ease into naturally this time of year is proving a bit more challenging, but we are finding our way.
I look forward to sharing our journey...
Tuesday, April 15, 2014
Spring is finally making herself known!
Sunday, March 9, 2014
A Sunday at Home...
We rounded out the day with an early supper and some nice wet-on-wet watercolor painting followed by some painting with leftover acrylic paints. It became a super fun mess of "splashing" on the paint.
Wednesday, February 19, 2014
Happy Valentine's Day!
We did lots of crafts, made Valentines for each other, and read all of our Valentine stories a few more times.
One of the really neat things we made were recycled paper Valentines to send to our friends! We put used paper in the blender with some water and then poured it out onto a screen we had stapled to a wooden frame. After we got most of the water pressed out, we used a rolling pin to make the paper even and smooth. We let it dry out and then made some fun Valentines!
Wet-on-wet watercolor painting. |
"I will be your Vawentwine!" |
The boys thought this little visitor (who came in on our firewood) was so cute. I hope everyone else had a really nice Valentine's Day! |