Tag Archives: home education
My she-shed herbal workshop camper 🌿
About 5 years ago, my husband got me a vintage camper for my birthday! The kids helped me clean it up and it became a backyard play house! As the years have gone by, the kids stopped playing in it and I began to dream of the possibilities… 🌸🌿🌸🌿🌸🌿🌸🌿🌸🌿 And this was the summer to …
Total solar eclipse workshop
We went to a library workshop on the total solar eclipse that will be happening soon! August 21, 2017 at 1:17 to be exact!! We were given awesome glasses made specifically for the eclipse! You can safely look at the sun through them… and the sun looks like an adorable star ☀️ ⭐️!! We were given demonstrations …
A class on Nature Journaling
Nature Journaling in itself is easy and fun. Basically, you go out in nature, observe and draw! Although the kids and I have done it before while inside and sick … And I have sewn sit-upons to use while outside observing and drawing… But when I heard there was a class at the Mo Department …
Bird watching… from the comforts of my home 🏡
It all started with a book… This book is amazing! I’m reading a chapter aloud a day- and each chapter tells the story of a bird through the eyes of a bird watcher. After we read the chapter, we also watch YouTube videos to actually see the bird 🐦! We are learning so much about …
Homeschool Story-time
As I mentioned in my previous post Dangerous Boys, when there is a void in your life, sometimes you need to fill it yourself! Our void… there was no age appropriate story time for my children. We went to a wonderful, fabulous, magnificent story-time at our library for about 8 years and had the same …
Pint-Sized Predators!!
We went to a class about praying mantis and dragonflies at Powder Valley Conservation Department. First there was a a class discussion about their life cycles ( both types of insects go through an incomplete metamorphosis). The kids then got to get hands on with some plastic models… … and an actual praying mantis! Everyone …
Sunporch turned Art Studio
I am a compulsive room changer! Seriously! Company never know which room is what when they come over! LOL! Well… Today I was reading through the fabulous blogs that I follow and I was hit with inspiration!!! This homeschool mom and daughter at the blog Stilllifewithchildren paint on their back porch… and the pictures looked …
Shaw Garden Tour
We went on our weekly park tour today! Kentucky has their horse derby 🏇and we have the leaf race 🍃… … Read on to find out who won…. 😉 We began the tour of Shaw Park at the playground. It’s quite a fun park that tries to draw upon the aesthetics of nature! Angela always …
Larson Park Tour
Angela led us on another fantastic park tour today… And the kids were so engaged and excited to hear all that she had to teach! She began by leading a child-led discussion about spring and any interesting things found so far in the wild. She then passed out some hand drawn maps and gave the …
The jump into Unschooling…
Kerry McDonald is the author for the blog at Whole Family Learning and she did a profile post on how we become an unschooling family. She had asked via her Facebook page if anyone wanted to share their story about choosing a self-directed learning style for their homeschool…. …and I felt a strong desire to explain how …
Becoming a Wild Family 