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…
Instead of trying to remember what I did throughout the week, I planned our week in a blog post and then edited it as needed. I still hesitate to call it a schedule (more like a plan), but certain work was scheduled on certain days. Does that count as a sche…
Typing that is. And in a world of advanced technology, computers and the internet, it seems like typing would be an essential skill to know. The older my children get, the more I realize they will need this skill. As a member of the Crew, I had the opportunit…
For our Winter Journal this week, we joined the Handbook of Nature Study's Winter Series Challenge #1 on Cattails . I am jumping in with the current challenge because I am challenge oriented like that. We also started the series on Discover Nature in …
A Mouse House Challenge: Your TASK is to create one room of a house for a mouse. Your team should then present a PERFORMANCE in which you show the Appraisers (your parents) the room. {Our first hybrid challenge!} Materials: 6 Paper Cups 4 Paper Clips …
We had a lot of fun doing our first hybrid challenge , (task and performance based) so I took the plunge and went for a performance based challenge this week! That means we will be doing some improv acting with some imaginary props! Hide and Seek IC#8 Ti…
