Our week with Madeline
This was a very fun week for us! Madeline is such a cute story! Jacob and I both love any story that has a good rhythm and rhymes. He has picked up on this and is saying many things in rhyme since last...
View ArticleWe Made Butter!
We’ve been studying pioneers for the past couple of weeks, and today we made butter with Hannah, Emily, Caleb, and Aunt Candace!! I’ve never done this before… it was a lot easier than I expected....
View ArticleOur Day with the Sheep
Another pioneer activity… a field trip to some sheep! We spent quite a bit of time learning about sheep and their importance to pioneer families. We rowed the book Warm as Wool. This was one of my...
View ArticleVery Last First Time
This is the Five in a Row book we did this past week. I think it was one of our favorites; it was one of mine anyway. We read many books about the Inuit (an Eskimo people group) people and focused on...
View ArticlePeter Rabbit Watercolor
Just in case you wonder why I don’t post much about school lately… ummmmmm… we’ve really been enjoying Spring! We’ve been doing a lot of spontaneous things outside: discovering what kinds of trees we...
View ArticleOur week with Lentil
We studied Lentil the week around July 4th. This was a favorite of both of my kids! We had checked it out form the library, and by the end of our study, I found out I had won this book in a drawing of...
View ArticleHow to Make an Apple Pie and See the World
Our week with apples! We started off with a visit to the Apple Orchard with some friends. At this orchard, they feed all the kids an apple fritter and some fresh cider. I think this is the first time...
View ArticleFive in a Row Schedule
So here are the books that remain in Volumes 1-3 for us to “row.” I’ve saved the ones that have deeper topics (like war, slavery, immigration, etc) on purpose, so some of the more mature ones are the...
View ArticleSalamander Room
We finally rowed Salamander Room! This is a book I’ve wanted to do for three years, but each time it is planned the week before I go to the beach and has never actually happened. This year I finally...
View ArticleMeeting my online friend!
Leslie is an online friend with whom I’ve been corresponding for over 4 years now! I met her on the Five in a Row message boards. We started emailing when her daughter was born with Down Syndrome and...
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