Homeschooling with Grandma and Grandpa Willett
Posted in Elizabeth, Family, Homeschooling, Janie, Susanna on May 17th, 2017
Grandma and Grandpa are here, and we spent today working on schoolwork and playing with some of our educational box kits!
Category Archive for 'Homeschooling'
Books We Read This School Year
Posted in Children's Books, Homeschooling on May 15th, 2017
So I’ve been struggling for months with intense mom guilt that this school year did not go how I’d planned. Last summer at the reunion, I was so challenged by hearing my friends talk about how important reading is in the homeschools, and gosh, that is what Derek and I have wanted for our family […]
Kitchen Camp Redux
Posted in Elizabeth, Homemaking, Homeschooling on Apr 14th, 2017
When you go to Sprouts and find a manager’s special on strawberries ($.98 for 2 pint containers), you buy ten pounds of strawberries. And your seven year old becomes adept at cleaning and cutting them. Elizabeth (aka Mary Ingalls)’s tips for cutting strawberries: Cut off the top. Cut off the end. Cut it in half. […]
Spring Break Kitchen Camp
Posted in Elizabeth, Homemaking, Homeschooling, Janie, Susanna on Apr 12th, 2017
It’s our spring break this week, so we are all enjoying a much-needed vacation at home. The kids have been coloring, playing outside, listening to audiobooks, playing with friends, roller blading, and catching up on projects from all the monthly subscriptions we get from Inspire. We’ve gotten way behind on trying all the new recipes […]
Tommy and Susie’s Art Class
Posted in Homeschooling, Susanna, Tommy on Apr 5th, 2017
I finally came in before the end of class today to get some pictures of the kids at work!
LA Opera Open House Day
Posted in California, Elizabeth, Homeschooling, Janie, Susanna, Tommy on Mar 27th, 2017
The big three kids were huge fans of their first visit to the LA Opera! We got to hear soloists from the Young Artists program sing famous arias, saw Placido Domingo himself in person, checked out sample costumes and props (many from shows that Derek and I have seen!), watched one of the six full-time […]
Little Women
Posted in Elizabeth, Homeschooling, Susanna on Mar 14th, 2017
I love our writing curriculum, which gives the kids a taste of all sorts of great literature and whets their appetite for more! The girls are cuddled up listening to Little Women after today’s Writing With Ease lesson. I love my little women!
Piano Lessons
Posted in Elizabeth, Homeschooling on Mar 9th, 2017
We started piano lessons with the big three kids this semester, and while there have been some tears, I am so glad we are doing it. Annaleise is a Pepperdine music major who comes to our house, which is all I could handle this spring. It is fun to see that all the kids inherited […]
No really, I don’t believe in early handwriting…
Posted in Homeschooling, Janie on Mar 7th, 2017
Unless your three year old starts copying letters on her own.
Math With a Friend
Posted in Elizabeth, Homeschooling on Feb 28th, 2017
Math is more fun with an American Girl friend.