Scenes from the Past Couple Weeks
Posted in Homeschooling on Oct 2nd, 2019
Here are a few of the pictures I’ve been posting on Instagram lately…
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Brainy Kids
Posted in Homeschooling on Sep 24th, 2019
We’re doing human anatomy for science this year, starting with the brain. The kids really got into it the other day when we played a parts of the brain game while wearing our brain caps!
Ice Skating Field Trip
Posted in Friends, Homeschooling on Sep 14th, 2019
On Wednesday, we met up with some of our CVH friends at the ice rink! I hadn’t even put my skates on since just after Janie was born, and they feel a lot smaller than they did 20 years ago. Simi Iceoplex is probably the world’s coldest ice rink, and we were completely underdressed in […]
Chocolate cuneiform
Posted in Elizabeth, Homeschooling, Janie, Susanna, Tommy on Aug 29th, 2019
Ancient Mesopotamia studies are always more fun when your “clay” is chocolate cookie dough!
Noah’s Ark model
Posted in Elizabeth, Homeschooling, Susanna on Aug 28th, 2019
Today the girls made a roughly-to-scale model of Noah’s ark to go along with our history timeline card. Back when Tommy did this project five years ago, it was all brown, but my girlie girls wanted some pretty color!
First Day of the 2019-2020 School Year
Posted in Annie, Elizabeth, Homeschooling, Janie, Susanna, Tommy on Aug 21st, 2019
This week Charis Classical Academy commenced our eighth year of classical Christian education with classes at our Malibu campus. Our students range from therapeutic preschool to seventh grade, and in addition to our regular studies of Mark’s gospel, Latin, English language, literature, and poetry, mathematics, and French, we are excited to start our history and […]
Kansas City
Posted in Annie, Homeschooling, Tommy on Jul 27th, 2019
On our way to the airport, we stopped to check out the World War One Memorial Museum and Gates BBQ, which even Annie ate! Home and in bed by 2 am. It was a long last day!
Fun in St Louis
Posted in Annie, Elizabeth, Homeschooling, Janie, Susanna, Tommy on Jul 25th, 2019
We spent our last weekend in the Midwest in St Louis, hanging out with the Carruthers and visiting the St Louis Science Center for their 50th Anniversary of the Moon Landing party, followed by the girls’ first trip to the Arch (and the Museum of Westward Expansion, which used to be a celebration of westward […]
Butterflies in Santa Barbara
Posted in Annie, California, Elizabeth, Friends, Homeschooling, Janie, Susanna, Tommy on Jun 26th, 2019
This week has been all about the totally last minute field trips with friends. Yesterday, we were supposed to go to a homeschool beach day, but it was 60, overcast, and drizzly–not ideal beach weather. So at 10 am, Jessica, Lynn, and I all decided to drive up to Santa Barbara, instead! The Butterflies Alive! […]
Chapter Books We Read This Year (2018-2019)
Posted in Children's Books, Homeschooling on Jun 24th, 2019
Last school year, we managed 37 read-alouds together. This year, with only 25 books, was not the epic read-aloud year that I had hoped for, mostly because of Annie! It’s hard to read together with her around, so we had to wait and only do it when she was napping. She and I were gone […]