The Homeschool House —

Why Are You Homeschooling?

Thanks to everyone who responded to this discussion over at the homeschool lounge. I have enjoyed reading all of your reasons for beginning to homeschool. I wanted to add mine in as well.
My parents divorced when I was 5. I didn’t see my father again until I was 12. My mom got a job working [...]

So,What are Your Ideas for Making this School Year Exciting Different?

Here are some of my ideas:

Start a Nature Journal
Once a week go outside and study something in nature (We take Fridays for our nature study.) Give your kids a notebook with some blank pages, you may want to print out some free nature or animal [...]

I am really having a hard time with my 7 yo son. His attitude is so difficult right now. He complains about doing everything and this is really making my life hard right now. It is affecting my daughter too because we do many subjects together. He stops our reading with complaining and when asked [...]

I must admit I am struggling a bit right now with choosing our curriculum for next year. I am a little torn about what to use for history. I am still going back and forth between using “My Father’s World” again or changing over to “TOG.” I am leaning more toward My Father’s World because [...]

Dear Lord,
while sitting here today I can think of so many things that are wrong in my life. I am so disappointed with myself this week, and I am disappointed in others to. But I believe that somehow all of this is working together for my good, and I know that you’re very close to [...]

I was reading someone’s blog today and saw this. It touched my heart and I wanted to share it with you. To me, this is a reminder that our children truly belong to the Lord, and it is our responsibility to allow the Lord’s will for our children to be fulfilled in their lives, instead [...]

I have been reading about poetry memorization for a while now and I finally decided to start it with Juliet. I am going to purchase IEW’s poetry memorizatiion cd’s for next year, but for the remainder of this year I decided to just pick out the poems myself.
Juliet started a poetry notebook. We are just [...]

I have to admit that I fell into a trap. before we began our new year I started reading other blogs about school time scheduling. I was extremely busy over the summer with my notebooking website, and for some reason I started to think that a strict schedule during the day would allow things to [...]

This was the best butter I have ever tasted...worth all the effort!

This week we made homemade butter from whipping cream. We are studying American History using Adventures in MFW, and we have been reading about the pilgrims. We learned that they had to make their own butter, so we made our own to see how it was done.
This project was included in the curriculum.
First we bought [...]

We are studying American History using Adventures in My Father’s World. We made totem poles today because we are learning about the North American Indians. We were even able to get good ol’ dad to join in the fun!
We used a pre-made template (for the kids) and ideas from enchantedlearning.com
We had tons of fun and [...]