This spring we have been studying insects and did a deep dive into butterflies and ladybugs! We ordered some at-home kits and watched up close as these little bugs transformed.

This post is all about literacy development and supporting emergent readers. I also shared some of the materials I’ve liked to use over the years to do this.

Our ancient history study highlights and a sneak peak into how we’ll be using Story of the World Volume 2 next year!

What a joy our Kindergarten year was! I’m sharing lots about our experience and the materials we used.

The girl’s 4th grade year is wrapping up! I can’t even believe we’re here!

Space is probably one of our favorite topics to study! We’ve studied it before, but took a completely different route this time around and I love how it turned out.

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I know mastery of multiplication facts can be tricky so I thought I’d share our experience helping my twins get their facts mastered.

March usually means Green Eggs and Ham, Ireland, little leprechauns, frogs, and weather around here! We love to bring in everything green this time of year!

As the famous Greek philosopher, Aristotle, proclaimed thousands of years ago…“Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all.” But, what exactly is heart education? And how can we strive for it in our homes?

A few of our favorite Valentine books and a little look into how we’ve celebrated Valentine’s the last couple of years.

We’ve been reading lots and changing up our unit study routine. Today I’m highlighting some of the things we’ve been up to the last few weeks.

Some of our favorites for the Christmas season.

We read more in November. The cooler weather and the first snow storms begin to tuck us in for the winter. Today I’m sharing some of our favorite books to read this time of year. But, first I wanted to chat a little bit about home libraries and why collecting seasonal books have become important to us.

We’re shifting gears into ancient world history and here are a few of the materials we’re currently using.

Looking outside our back living room windows, we can see the dusting of red treetops beginning to work their way down the mountainsides. Fall is here and it’s time to pull out some of our favorite books!

The topics covered in this course are must-have and must-review conversations. Here are my honest thoughts about the course.

Are you looking for some new nature study books to add to your home library? These are some of our favorites and why. I also included my wish list…because can one ever have enough nature books???

This is our first unit study of the year. If you’re new around here, I like to dive deeper into one unit at a time and right now we’re doing all things birds!

Short and simple post on our handwriting basket and what’s in it.