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A Summer Daybook– okay, fine: an almost summer daybook
Outside my window… Summer is here! Ish. :) We’re calling it summer- I am so ready for it. No garden this year. The girls planted, but the twins dug it all up. Ah well. I’m sure the boys will be...
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Wrapping up the School Year
The year-end party is happening this weekend at our homeschool co-op, so today we’ve been busy putting together those End of Year folders we love so much. This year we’re using 1″ binders (not report...
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Summer = Time Gained
I have a bad habit of thinking that summer is time lost. You know what I’m talking about, right? It seems that every time we take a couple of months off of school completely, when we finally get back...
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RAR #27 Summer Reading: Making memories (& having fun)
We all want our kids to read over the summer, right? But how can make that summer reading both memorable and fun- a treasured childhood memory rather than another thing to do and check off our lists?...
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Summerish
Ahhhhhhh. Summer. I had no idea how badly I needed it until it was here. Have you seen Pam’s summer planning printables yet? I’m loving them. Love-ing them. As in, they’re plastered all over my fridge...
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Homeschooling with Toddler Twins (or: lifestyles of the overwhelmed)
Let’s talk a bit about homeschooling with twins underfoot, shall we? (That was your cue to start breathing into a paper bag.) (Of course, if you have toddler twins, you already are breathing into a...
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I Am Not An Airplane
I am not an airplane. This is something of a revelation to me. It happened while I was listening to Tsh Oxenreider’s first podcast, The Art of Simple. She was talking with Emily Freeman, and Emily said...
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On Being Outnumbered and Teaching from Rest
No one likes to be outnumbered. If you’re in a soccer match and the other team has more players on the field than you, it feels like defeat before you begin. Being outnumbered by children is daunting...
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RAR #28: Cultivating a Well-Trained Mind, Susan Wise Bauer
We’re back in business for another season of the Read-Aloud Revival podcast! You’ve been asking for her since we first launched the podcast over a year ago, and today I finally get to bring her...
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RAR #29: Getting Back in the Saddle with Reading Aloud
Have you fallen out of the read-aloud habit? It’s okay, I understand. I’ve been there 100 times, and in fact, I’m just trying to get back into the swing of things myself. Getting back in the saddle is...
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RAR #30: Reading Aloud with Boys, Cindy Rollins
Boys. Here at the Read-Aloud Revival, we get asked about the nitty gritty of reading with boys more than anything else. And who better to answer those questions than a mother of eight boys? She also...
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Scope #1: How We Homeschool- The Big Picture and My Favorite Tools
We’ve got a little something new happening around here! Have you checked out Periscope yet? It’s live video streaming, and it’s really crazy fun. :) I’m airing a series about how we homeschool LIVE on...
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RAR #31: Reading Aloud for History, Rea Berg
This may be one of the most delightful conversations we’ve had yet on the Read-Aloud Revival. If you haven’t met Rea Berg yet… you’re going to love me for introducing you to her. :) And if you know who...
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Scope #2: How We Homeschool- Morning Time
Morning Time is the very first part of our school day- in a lot of ways, it’s the bread and butter of what we’re about. In this show, I’m chatting about what morning time looks like for us right now....
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Scope # 3: How We Homeschool- Morning Rotations with Mom
Getting one-on-one time with each of my school-age kids can be tricky with so many toddlers mucking about. This is the strategy we’re currently using to make sure that I’m getting some good quality...
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Scope #4: How We Homeschool- Spiral Notebook Magic
For those of you who have read the Spiral Notebook post, this maaaaaay just be the question I get more than any other– how do you only spend 15 mintues per night prepping those? The key is to use a...
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How We Homeschool- Big Picture Checklists
If you’ve seen the other videos in this series, then you know how I plan and record our learning on a daily/weekly basis. But what about the big picture? I need one place to keep all of our progress....
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Teaching from Rest Book Club…happening soon!
It’s here! So many of you have asked for a book club for Teaching from Rest: A Homeschooler’s Guide to Unshakable Peace, and today I announced it on Periscope: Here’s what you need to know: The book...
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Whose Well Done Are You Working For? :: Teaching from Rest Book Club, Part 1
Over 1200 of us showed up live for the first part of the Teaching from Rest book club. Can you even imagine? We were like a great throng, gathered up to encourage and inspire one another to teach our...
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Curriculum is not Something You Buy :: Teaching from Rest Book Club, Part 2
What if we changed the way we viewed our success as homeschooling moms? What if we recognized that the quality of study matters far more than the mere quantity of learning? And what if we realized that...
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