I am happy to be wrapping up our school week a little early today. The boys are on their way to Chess Club, the house is decent, dinner is almost ready (homemade pizza Sue Gregg style and a salad) and I just took a loaf of whole wheat bread (same recipe) out …

~Eliana is 3 years old~ We have been on a break from Tot School for the past 2 months. During this time, we have been reading books, watching signing time videos and doing a few activities here and there, but mostly we have just been playing. This is our …

Two new skates ~ one happy boy.

I mentioned earlier that I had a Tot Review coming up and I am so excited to have received Learning Resources Attribute Lacing Buttons for review from CSN Stores. I selected these from many fun and educational toys in the Learning and Exploration line of pr…

We started the series on Discover Nature in Winter , a part of the Winter Series Study at The Handbook of Nature Study . Here is what we did with some of the ideas from Chapter 1: World of Winter . As a part of this series, we are learning about color in w…

For our winter tree study, we focused on the flowering crab apple trees and the willow tree in the front yard. I love watching the trees change through the seasons and I am excited to see my children capture those changes. I think each child will see it a lit…

Saxon math and homeschool seem to go hand in hand for many homeschool families as Saxon has long been trusted to provide quality math text books. Well, there is a new program offered by Saxon and as a member of the TOS Homeschool Crew , I had the opportunit…

Hide and Seek The Scene: You are a team of highly distinguished private secret agents. Your client has given you two difficult tasks. Challenge : Your team is to decide on something that would be hard to hide along with something that would be hard to f…