The Architect and The Artist

Entering the world of homeschooling high school can bring extra work and stress to a mom. There are more obligations to fulfill when y...

{Affiliate links used.} Have you ever heard of delight-directed learning? Basically, it is a way to help your kids learn without real...

{Affiliate links used.} When my boys were younger we did unit studies for most of their learning. I truly think unit studies are the ...

I LOVE children's picture books. When my boys were younger it was the way I taught them using books based unit studies from Five in...

We are by no means done with our homeschooling journey, but with my oldest we are getting to the end as he will be a junior in the fall.  He...

The following is a notebook page that I made up so that my boys can explore each state in the union.  I am going to have them use World Atla...

We are going to start learning about Shakespeare this year (since we are doing the Middle Ages, Renaissance and the Reformation, Shakespeare...

We have been working on our unit on Argentina based on the book, Chúcaro .  We have been using Study Starters as notebooking pages for our ...

So in December we are embarking on studying Argentina through the book Chúcaro.  There is a unit for the book Chúcaro here . Here are som...

I am currently working on getting our December plans together for school. We will be doing some different things for December this year......

Alaska is 50 years old this year! Fifty years of statehood! This would be a great time to learn a bit more about the 49th state. Here are so...

South America (along with Africa) tends to be studied less than say Europe or Asia in the elementary years. Here are some great resources if...

Here are some pictures of our earthquake lapbooks . We went over concepts like magnitude, the Ring of Fire, faults, P waves and S waves. You...

Which three quakes are the strongest ones ever recorded? We are going to go over the three strongest quakes today and find on the map where ...

Today we started our earthquake unit. We read a little about the San Francisco quake in 1906. We also worked on some vocabulary related to e...

We live near the Ring of Fire . So for the past couple of days we have been experiencing some earthquakes. See here for a little more infor...