One of the twins' (6.5-years-old) homeschool activities involves finding interesting encyclopedia articles and summarizing them.  Rec...

The kids have been engaged in a lot of self-directed learning over the past three weeks while I get my first novel ready for publication ...

I try to do something special to welcome each month in our homeschool.  Yesterday, we celebrated the start of May with a little maypole d...

The kids and I explored the world of plants a couple weeks ago.  Botany is actually an ongoing science topic at our homeschool, especiall...

The kids and I enjoy Jack Prelutsky's humorous poems. A couple weeks ago, we read (and listened to) his poems from Carnival of the A...

Doing schoolwork in a plague mask?  It's just another day in our homeschool.  Here's what we covered this week...

This past week felt lighter in "schooling", but the kids had plenty of time for play, creativity, and self-directed learning.  ...

Last week we studied Russia, so it was only natural to do a little unit-study on Tchaikovsky for our Music lesson.  We read the book, Tch...

Since we had plenty of colorful plastic eggs from Easter, I decided to use them for a fun little game to reinforce our grammar lessons on...

Future homeschooler, Baby L (7 months old) is definitely part of the family - he falls asleep clutching a book!  The older kids had a goo...

This isn't a new project, but I really wanted to share it.  A couple months ago, L (age 6.5), who is a little fashionista, asked me i...

We took a week off last week for "Spring Break" (which was really just a chance to let me and E recover from the flu).  Towards...

L (age 6.5) is currently reading one of my favorite children's books, Where the Mountain Meets the Moon by Grace Lin.  In this nov...

The kids and I have been so engrossed with science lessons over the past couple weeks, that we've been neglecting our Art and Music s...

In our unit study on India this summer, we spent a couple weeks exploring Hindu holidays as well as the animals that live in India.  The ...

This summer we finished up The Story of the World Volume 1: Ancient Times , and spent a lot of time learning about ancient Rome.  Here...

One of the books I checked out from the library on Latin American crafts had templates for making these cute paper lamas.  The kids LOVED...

In our two-week unit on South America and Mesoamerica, we read a lot of traditional folktales from those regions and made crafts insp...

The best part of our month-long unit on Ancient Greece was reading Greek myths together.  The kids enjoyed the myths so much that it beca...

The kids took a day learning about constellations as part of our week on ancient Greek mathematicians and scientists.  After reading some...