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…

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…