5 Things We Did Right In Our Homeschool

Homeschooling

5 Things We Did Right

(or 5 things we done good on)

I wrote the following because my kids are grown now.  In all our years of homeschooling, I was so afraid I was ruining my kids with my inadequate skills.  I can look back now and see a lot we got right. 

I hope this encourages you.  Hang in there. 

1.  Read Aloud ~ This was by far, the best thing we ever did as a family and in our homeschooling.  I regret so much not doing more of it, as now the time is gone.  *sniff*  Start them young.  If your children are older, start now.  Some of our best, most powerfully moving memories and moments shared as a family, came from sharing great literature together. 

2.  Word of the Day ~ not only was this amazingly helpful, most of the time it was hysterically fun.  We all kept little journals for unfamiliar words.  We would choose a word of the day, write it on the fridge, memorize the definition, then use the word all day in as many conversations and sentences as possible.  This game became a riot.  Not only were my children learning vocabulary, we were laughing and making memories. 

3.  Go for walks and collect things ~  We loved rocks, feathers, shells, plants and insects.  I think I loved the insects more than the children, but because I was excited about my AWESOME bug collection, they learned.  :) 

4.  Realize as soon as possible, every child is different ~  Each child learns differently.  Watch and listen to them carefully, pray for wisdom and teach your child his/her style of learning.  If you're forcing your child into hours of workbooks, when all they want to do is read.....hmmm....you're child is telling you something.  Are you listening? 

5.  Unschooling (or relaxed) is not a dirty word. ~  There are seasons of life.  Be flexible and be at peace about it.  Give yourself permission, turn your kids loose to study what they want.  Life happens.  (Mom has car wrecks, Dad travels 2 weeks every month and grandparents die, for example). 

Psssttt...And whatever you do, during this "unschooling" time or any other time, do NOT compare yourself to the Trivium family or Mr. and Mrs. A Beka, who has it all together (or to anyone else, because you'll literally go insane).  Do. Not. Compare.  They are not you.  You are not them.  We are all unique units with different needs.  (For the record, we used Sonlight).      . 

*More to come in this series.  My daughter and other friends are making their lists. 


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My favorite thing about this photo is it wasn't staged.  I love capturing "real" moments in my children's life



I have homeschooled my children for 12 years.  We used Sonlight at home, as well as other fine curriculums in co-ops.  One child is in college, has her AA and is working on her BA.  The other will graduate this May.  I've had some success as well as many failures and many "head against wall smashing".  While this is not a homeschool blog, I do hope to encourage other parents out there who are traumatized by math, terrorized by their child's latest melt down, or tanking from lack of motivation ..........

 

I want you to know and believe the following:

 

*It can be done*

*You're doing a great job*

*Your children are going to grow up just fine*  

*You're not messing them up as much as you think you are*
*chill out.*  

 

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ALSO, (I've heard it all, so don't go there)

 

1.  I don't hate public school.  I love teachers.  Some of my best and closest friends teach in public schools.  

2.  I am not superior or inferior because I homeschool.  You are not superior or inferior because your children attend school outside the home. 

3. Homeschooling is not for everyone.  Not everyone can do it.  If you cannot or do not want to homeschool, you're not a bad person or a bad parent. 

4.  Parents (and teachers) are VERY OPINIONATED, SENSITIVE and DEFENSIVE regarding education.  If you feel a need to "fight" or share a condescending, nasty opinion, take it else where.  Ain't no body got time for that. 

 

Why Handwriting Matters

Missing Ink ~ Why Handwriting Matters 

by Philip Hensher

 

This is on my Top 5 Soap Box issues.  I don't know what the other 4 are, but this topic is the source of weekly rants. 
I'm sure my kids are sick of it. 

I tell them they are uncivilized and illiterate if they can't write

or read a letter from their grandmother. 

 

I'll stop now before I go on and on and on and on........

 

Don't even get me started.....

 

Read the article and tell me what you think. 

How do you feel about the decline of handwriting?

 

And I didn't ask you if you LIKE your handwriting as most people don't.

Home

Hi.

 

An old painting in my living room

Glued to a book shelf

 

From the living room floor

A shelf in the kitchen full of "Grandma" 

 

Behind the toilet.  Guess who is back there???
 

  

Homeschool mess

 

Be blessed and be a blessing. 

 

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I don't always drink soda, but when I do, I prefer Coke Zero. 

 

 

~The End~



A week in Greens

Just a little glimpse at our week. 

I noticed a trend.  :)

 

I have been very busy with the etsy store and my new booth.  If I go for a long time without sewing, I get grumpy.  Hand work is my savior, as it keeps my brain cleansed of twaddle and worry.  It's good to empty it out and meditate or pray while your fingers are busy accomplishing something loving...usually a gift or something to keep my family warm, safe and cuddled. 

 

Pooh picked out 2 shades of Green for me to use.

Baby Milo's quilt.  I was inspired by those cute, scrappy confetti quilts.  I'm calling this
"The Emerald City Quarry". 
LOL 
It fits, yes? 

 



A quiet homeschool moment.  He doesn't like it when I take his picture.  I told him to chill out, I was taking a picture of my lamp.  He wasn't buying it. 

 

A friend brings balloons.

Oh, and here is the backing.  It's Ten Little Things, from Jenn Ski, Moda.  It looks like Lily Rose Quilts at Etsy has a lot of it.  Support small business and Etsy.  :) 

 

And in the spirit of greening, a little quote from Anne of Green Gables. 

 

"I do NOT like patchwork," said Anne dolefully, hunting out her
workbasket and sitting down before a little heap of red and white
diamonds with a sigh. "I think some kinds of sewing would be
nice; but there's no scope for imagination in patchwork. It's
just one little seam after another and you never seem to be
getting anywhere. But of course I'd rather be Anne of Green
Gables sewing patchwork than Anne of any other place with nothing
to do but play. I wish time went as quick sewing patches as it
does when I'm playing with Diana, though. Oh, we do have such
elegant times, Marilla. I have to furnish most of the
imagination, but I'm well able to do that. Diana is simply
perfect in every other way." 

 

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Okie dokie...back to work for me.  Y'all have a wonderful weekend.

 

Be blessed and Be a blessing. 

 

~Choose Joy~

 

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Disappointment engulfs poor Pooh.  Mama won't let him cuddle the baby quilt and decorate it with his pretty Ginger furr.  Meanie! 



~ The End~

Book Mountain Stack

You can tell a lot about a person by the books they read and the messes they make.

What do you see in us by looking at this honest mosaic? LOL Wait...nevermind. Not sure I wanna hear an honest answer.

This is a before picture of the "Library", also known as Book Mountain. My daughter began calling this room Book Mountain after a notorious incident in our home...the day frustrated homeschool Mama dumped all the books out of their boxes, searching for a specific science book. It took me forever to gather the courage to get in there and clean my temper tantrum.

And I still haven't found that book.

All the books have been removed from the room. The walls are painted. 4 bookshelves will be decoupaged with pages from my antique books. My back is killing me and I'm sick of being slimy and icky with liquid starch all day, but I'm determined. I'm not quiting until the job is done. Hopefully by the end of next week, I'll have it the way I want it.




A book reads the better which is our own, and has been so long known to us, that we know the topography of its blots, and dog's ears, and can trace the dirt in it to having read it at tea with buttered muffins. ~Charles Lamb, Last Essays of Elia, 1833

Be blessed and Be a Blessing.
Hooches and Smugs.
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Great Golden Digger Wasp

I think my 2nd favorite part of homeschooling all these years has been our nature studies (read alouds are #1). You never know when fascinating nature will be delivered to your home or yard. You've got to be flexible and relaxed enough to drop everything to enjoy the observation process, live in the moment, take time to smell the roses, or in our case this week...take time to watch the Great Golden Digger Wasp work her little persistent heart out. She's beautiful and she is AMAZING!!
Cumulatively I think we've all spent hours this week watching her. She chose to build her nursery a few feet from the porch so we could sit in the shade and admire her work ethic. She. Never. Stops. I wish I had that much energy as a mother. Nothing much seems to bother her. She's very content focusing only on her work. She noticed me once and turned to look at me (gave me the evil eye, she did) but went right back to work.
She goes down in her hole forward, but exits backing up with a perfect dirt ball with her. She piles them up neatly behind her landing strip. :) We saw her take down 3 green grasshoppers which she will lay her egg in.
Be kind to beneficial insects. These wasps are non aggressive and will keep your grasshopper population down, plus they pollinate. Let the good guys live. :)
I tried to get some good pictures for you. I did the best I could. To obtain perfect pictures would have involved lying in the dirt and I wasn't in the mood.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Charlotte Mason says: All this is stale knowledge to older people, but one of the secrets of the educator is to present nothing as stale knowledge, but to put himself in the position of the child, and wonder and admire with him; for every common miracle which the child sees with his own eyes makes of him for the moment another Newton.
(Vol 1, II, Out-Of-Door Life For The Children, p.54 )
Children should be encouraged to watch, patiently and quietly, until they learn something of the habits and history of bee, ant, wasp, spider, hairy caterpillar, dragon-fly, and whatever of larger growth comes in their way.
(Vol 1, II, Out-Of-Door Life For The Children, p.57

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Golden Digger Wasp info
Wish this was better focused, but I can't believe I caught this shot. I was so excited to witness this. (poor grasshoppa)

  See her backing up? We would make "Beep Beep Beep" backing up sounds to cheer her along. Had to be there I guess. LOL It was funny when it happened. :)
Here she comes with a handful of dirt rolled up in a tidy little ball




Psalm 50:10-11: “For every beast of the forest is mine, the cattle on a thousand hills. I know all the birds of the hill, and all that moves in the field is mine.” Blessings to you!

Group Hugs!!

Hooches and Smugs



Home from College

They move out - they move back in. They move out - they move back in.
Girl Child has returned from her first year in college. Um, sure she was only 30 minutes away but what's that to a Mother? She might as well be on Mars - cause she's my baby and the home was missing her light and presence. We're all going to enjoy the "friendship" she brings to our family. She's a delightful companion to have in your life. And did I mention she's a hard worker? We're kinda like tag-team home makers. Maybe that's not healthy, but she's been such a big help (a God send...thank God for my good daughter!!!!) to me all these years since my back was ruined 4 years ago in a fender bender. I'm so proud of the woman she has become...she's such a wonderful, happy, witty, faithful joy in our life.
3 months with her, then she'll move back out - hopefully to move back in, again and again....cuz it's gonna be hard to let her go. Awwww...as I type this, I hear her foot steps over head just waking up...what a sweet sound to hear the feet of your child creaking across the floor upstairs...   I just read this page on my Kindle, a free Grace Livingston Hill download, and it made me smile at this familiar feeling. The context is a Presbyterian minister watching his just returned daughter sweeping the front porch:   "...as he wrote an article..... he was more keenly alive to the song on the lips of his child, who had but lately returned from college life in one of the great universities for women. He smiled as he wrote, and a light came in his deep thoughtful eyes. She had gone and come, and she was still unspoiled, mentally, physically, or spiritually. That was a great deal to have kept out of life in these days of unbelief. He had been almost afraid to hope she would come back the same." "The City of Fire", 1922

Just thought it was interesting that parents were worried about the same things for their daughters back in 1922. As Solomon said, there is nothing new under the sun.

 

Hooches and Smugs

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Godspell in Lutz, Florida

My daughter is part of a theater school here in Lutz, Florida, called the Acting Studio

 

Every year they pick the play, get the script in August and perform in February and March. It's a dedicated, talented group of kids who have basically grown up together. I wish everyone could see their performances. The directors are amazing!!!! I love these people and what they have done for my daughter.

Before the first performance, I went back stage and took some pictures. I love this one. This is Allyson, putting make up on "Jesus", her friend Michael. He's a meek, sweet soul and a the perfect person to play Jesus.

 

Here is my sweet beautiful actress...she can even cry on cue. LOL  Honestly though, if you've ever seen Godspell, it's easy to cry.   

If you're interested in theater for your child or teen in the Tampa area contact the The Acting Studio.

Meriwether Lewis Quote

"I had in all human probability existed about half the period which I am to remain in this Sublunary world ... I had as yet done but little, very little, indeed, to further the happiness of the human race, or to advance the information of the succeeding generation. I viewed with regret the many hours I have spent in indolence, and now sorely feel the want of that information which those hours would have given me had they been judiciously expended ... I resolved in future, to redouble my exertions ... to live for mankind, as I have heretofore lived for myself."

- Meriwether Lewis, August 18, 1805, on occasion of his 31st birthday

Poor Meriwether. What a beautiful name he had. 

Bless his heart. 

World War 1 Homeschool Study

Charlotte Mason Blog Carnival

November 11th was once called Armistice Day, but after WWII it became known as Veteran's Day.

We covered World War I the past two weeks. What an intense, exciting at times, complicated, demoralizing decade to study. I never knew much about “The Great War”. Learning with our children is the best part of homeschooling.

 When you study WWI, you can’t help but be sobered by how much this war still affects and sometimes complicates our world today. Serbs, Croations, Bosnians, Turks, Kurds, Iraq (previously part of the Ottomon Empire), Russians...just to name a few....SOME of the same people are still fighting. Then the harsh Treaty of Versailles crippled the Germans so they could never rise again *cough*....

We have a small history group of 5 high school girls from our congregation and we have spent the last year and a half working through Notgrass American History. I cannot recommend this material highly enough. It’s one of the few curriculum choices I have made where we actually finished the book and I did not regret my expensive purchase half way through the year.


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Basically to sum up WW1 in the words of my observant 16 year old daughter:

“It’s like the horrible slumber party every girl has experienced and has stored in her memory. One ambitious, sensitive girl is offended because she thinks another girl at the party looked at the guy she “likes” in the wrong way and is trying to steal him from her. Another friend takes her side. Then the one who offended is mad because that other girl just sided against her, so she then tries to get more girls on her side, then more girls join the other side. The dominoes start falling and there is a “take no prisoners” mentality which overcomes even the best of girls. The strongest personalities in the group are the “imperialists”. There are actual “aliances” drawn and if you cross the line, you are a traitor and the friendships will be “executed” (figuratively speaking) by the other side. There are actual spies who pretend to cross the line to collect information only to find out later about 2:00 a.m. in the morning, she stabbed you in the back. There is a strong spirit of “nationalism” among the girls and there is no turning back...you’ll stand by your “best friend” to the death. Then there are the neutral parties (such as my daughter) who could care less about getting involved in the latest melodrama and goes to sleep before midnight while the other “countries” engage in trench warfare until 5:00 a.m. when physical exhaustion and the high casualty rate consumes them.”

Beware of any harsh peace treaties or there will be an even bigger war at the next slumber party.

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I bought Orange Crushes (invented in 1916) and made a Fruit Cocktail Cake (fruit cocktail invented in 1914) for our class.  Here is a link with food ideas if you want to try a lunch or dinner party. Eating the foods and listening to music from the era cements the history in their minds. I'm a firm believer in partying our way through home education.

I also think it is very helpful (imperative) for older students to map out pre World War 1 Europe/Asia and post World War 1 Europe/Asia. It will give them a clear, mental picture of the land and territories affected. We created a Time Line using a folding Dina Zike booklet idea. Here are pictures. It's nothing fancy, but it's a handy guide for quick reference.

If you have visual or hands on learners, I highly recommend Dina Zikes Big Book of Unites States History.  We used it again, and again. Adults and children alike all enjoyed making her fold outs and lap books.  

Here are some helpful links:

Simplified Timeline I found this uncomplicated timeline to be very usable. It also has a link for practical activities.

World War 1 Books for Kids

National World War 1 Museum in Kansas City I've heard several people mention this was the best museum they've ever visited. I see a homeschool field trip in our future. This site also has helpful information.

A helpful before and after map

another map

PBS Great War site...excellent

I loved this site because it gave an American cultural perspective of the decade

Best History Sites; World War 1

Brief explanation of effects of World War 1 which is imperative to understand

A good artist to study during this time period is Kathe Kollwitz who lost a son in World War 1. Study the rise of "Expressionism" in art.

FYI: For you Tolkien fans out there, he fought in World War 1 and used what he experienced in the trenches in his notorious books.

I recommend watching All Quiet on the Western Front with your older students and have a deep, philosophical discussion with them about this film.  There are other great films about this time period.  Do a Google search and find some appropriate ones for your children's age group.

Let me know if any of these links helped you, or if they are broken.  I would love feedback on your World War 1 study.  How did it go?  What did you do?

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Poe in our Homeschool Co-op Literature class

I teach 2 high school literature classes at a homeschool co-op on Thursdays. One American and one Brit.

This week in our American Literature studies, we're covering Edgar Allan Poe. Appropriate for the season, I think. I enjoy read my literature by seasons. Some books are better during a particular time of year, wouldn't you agree?  Do you do this too?

Yesterday's class was the best class we've ever had. I cannot get my American Literature class to open up and enjoy it.  Yesterday, however, they went crazy for Poe.  No pun intended.  I was so pleased. I've decided we should discuss insanity, guilt, grief, murder, mystery, blood and gore every week, if it will get my students excited about American Literature. LOL

We're covering The Tell-Tale Heart right now, my favorite short story of his. I'm having my students write a newspaper article on the murder as a creative writing assignment. There are some great vocabulary words in this story. Don’t miss those. We will also have a mock trial. I'm dividing my small class up into prosecution and defense. They will use source material found in the story.

Notice in The Tell-Tale Heart how the prose beats like an adrenaline filled heart in places.   The more you read of it, the more you will hear it. I noticed a ton of 3 syllable words in close proximity, which personally made me imagine a heart beat. Read it again and again, and you'll start hearing the heart beat yourself. Also notice how the Narrator never tries to defend his innocence; he keeps defending his sanity. Who is the narrator speaking with and trying to convince? An officer? The judge? His attorney? Us? Apparently, during the 1840's when this was written, the insanity defense became a great debate (always remember your context).

Yesterday, we had a big discussion over the victim's blindness. The story almost seems to move in slow motion. The narrator opens the lantern and shines the light on the “vulture eye” and the man did not defend himself. Could he not? One of my students suggested he was blind. DUH!!! It didn't occur to me. He only "heard" something in the room, but when the light was shinning on his eye, he did nothing. Was he frozen in fear or did he not see it? So we had a big long discussion over how fast the event could have occurred, his possible blindness in both eyes, was the Narrator really insane, or just a little insane and had he done this before?

We found irony in the fact that the man with the "evil vulture eye" was not "the evil" one. Also, there is irony in the senses. The poor old man couldn't see evil, but the narrator could. Both of them could "hear" evil and "death". Very interesting. I'm going to be thinking about this and the universal themes throughout the week. I tend to obsess over literature like that. LOL

Poe's writing style and literary techniques really pull me in, which is what a great author wants, right? I think we'll have a mysterious dinner, candlelit with ominous Bach playing in the background, and sit around the dinner table reading his poems and short stories. Especially right now with the wind blowing so hard in Florida as our natural special effect, a Poe night would be perfect. A chill blew in last night too so maybe we’ll open the windows and all literally and figuratively shiver.

Are you a Poe fan?  Do you have anything to add?  Thoughts? Ideas?


Here are some helpful links:

Study Guide for the Tell Tale Heart

Web English Teacher Poe site

Poe Museum

The Edgar Allan Poe Society of Baltimore

10 Weird Things You Don't Know About Poe

Homeschool Science and Insect Collecting

My Grandpa, George Woodruff, was a Biology professor at Harding for decades.  All of his children and grandchildren were blessed with a love for science. 

I have a very hard time killing healthy insects.  Most of my butterflies have been found on their death bed, or they were dead already.  A good place to find flying insects is the grill of your vehicle.  I try to capture only the weak and dying and let the healthy finish their given work in the environment.  Any where there are big outside lights, a parking lot, a little league sports game or your front porch, is another good place to hunt.

I put my live insects in a zip lock bag and place it in the freezer. A biologist friend of mine said it was a painless death. I hope she’s right. :(  I started keeping zip lock bags with me at all times.  I go prepared as you never know when you'll find an awesome bug. :)  I started coating our foam board with diatomaceous earth because a few of my most beautiful moths were eaten by microscopic somethings.  Why couldn’t they eat one of my ugly bugs? Grrrrrrrr.... 

Another sad thing I noticed was beautiful, gorgeous dragonflies do not keep their color after drying.  Oh, how I love dragonflies.  

You can buy tiny pins at a science supply company.  Fat pins crush your insects. You need a tiny, thin, sharp pin. Then do the research, identify and label.  

One thing I haven’t figured out yet is how to preserve a big fat juicy bug.  They are going to smell as they decompose. I’ve learned to leave 5 inch grasshoppers alone because it wasn’t worth it. Ick! I wonder if we can put them in salt and make mummies out of them.  Hmmmmm....more research 

I have some pictures of some other things we’ve collected. The little white stone things were actual kidney stones out of a dog. Gross!!! Those are sharks teeth we found on the beach.  We have tons of fossils too. 

I just want to encourage you to collect gross things.  Many parents can be creeped out, but your kids.....especially your boys....will love it.  Speaking of gross, we LOVED this game, The Totally Gross Game.  And this was a yucky, gross, and thoroughly interesting book too: Yuck! The Encyclopedia of Everything Nasty.  I can't say they are pleasant, but they were fun and educational.  I like things which make my son laugh, where he can learn without knowing he is learning.   What kinds of flora, fauna or "gross" things do your children collect?  Do you have any ideas or comments? I hope you'll follow our blogging journey.  We look forward to sharing with you.    Be blessed.  Be kind. Choose Joy. 

Economics Lesson and a Bake Sale

We had our own little family bake sale at our homeschool co-op.  My kids made a killin'.  They learned about running a small business, hard work, profit, expenses, etc.     

Notice in the first picture, there is a muffin missing? My son stole a muffin and I made him pay me .5o cents.  haha. Not really, but I did explain to him, we can't eat too much more profit. 

Grandma Johnson's Scones, from All Recipes were one of the best sellers.  Oh my gosh, so good!!!  I linked the recipe we used.  Really! Try it. So perfectly, perfect. Not too dry. Not too wet. A perfect scone.

RISE babies RISE!!!  These Cinnamon Rolls III were the BOMB!!! I loved this recipe because it was so easy to make the dough in the bread maker.  Very easy to prepare homemade and so delicious.  

Below is my 12 year old son Jonah with the finished product, trying his best not to breathe pathogens onto the product.  He sold one pan for $5.00 then the rest of the rolls, he sold for $1.00 a piece.

They ended up profiting over $20.00. We could have made more, but my son kept dipping into our earnings to buy a piece of pizza and a drink from our competition. I was mad, because he had a tuna fish sandwich in the car. I guess Tuna isn't as marketable as pizza.

 Supply and demand, I guess. *sigh*

Which would you make? The scones? The cinnamon rolls?  Both?
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Read Aloud Tips for Busy Boys

For those of you who are homeschooling a free spirted, auditory learning boy

who can't sit still and loves art...

I highly recommend collecting Dover coloring books. 

We bought the good, expensive and WONDERFUL Prisma Colored Pencils.  He colors the beautiful illustrations in Dovers coloring books while I read.  Often, I'll have him color something appropriate for the subject matter we are studying. 

This has worked really well for us. 

He's a boy!  While we are reading aloud, I think it helps him to keep his hands busy

 with legos, crayons, cars, etc.  

Our rule is he can play with his things while I read,

but no sound effects.  :) 

I stop and let him narrate what I just read to make sure he is paying attention and he always is. 

He can sit and listen to me read for 6 hours straight (longer if my voice didn’t give out). I'm choosing my battles.  He will love reading again.  We cherish our sweet time on our down sofa with our two cats accompanying us as we read the world's great literature. He's only going to let me read to him for so long, so I'm soaking up all the time he'll give me right now.

The Read Aloud Handbook  is a helpful resource for families who read a loud. 

Does your night stand look like this, stacked high with books?
This photo always makes me laugh at myself.

What's your favorite read aloud book?

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Cats Love Homeschooling

Over the years, I've seen many photos of homeschoolers 

with their animals. 

We had a meaningful, hands-on Biology lesson 

when our cat Cassidy gave birth to 5 kittens. 

All the kittens like school.

Here is Katy meeting Mr. Darcy for the first time. 

 She's in love, like the rest of us.

(You can get Pride and Prejudice free for your Kindle)

Here is Moo, the narcoleptic, resting in the safe arms of a Math student.

Katy likes to help Daddy work.

What animals homeschool with you?
Cats make the most comfortable reading buddies.
It's like peas and carrots.  The two just belong together, right?

Share your story of homeschooling with your pets in the "amiable" comments section below.
We love to throw around amiable a lot.
It's such a pretty Jane Austen sort of word.  LOL

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